Court Opinion

ID: 7944381
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 23:18:35.771189+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:33:51.452959
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION EOR REHEARING.
Per Curiam.
A motion for a rehearing of this cause has been made, and it is asked that, in case such relief shall not be granted, we indicate, by an addendum to the opinion filed, that the device shown by an amended return which is said to enable the voter to cast his ballot with absolute secrecy, is not open to the objection stated in the opinion heretofore filed. In view of the far-reaching effect of our decision, and the important interests, both *393public and private, which might be injuriously affected-by any general misapprehension of its scope, we deem it proper to say that it was not intended to hold or intimate that the voting machine in question was open to objection in any election in which the choice between candidates can be expressed by the use of the machine, or by any other method which does not disclose to the inspector or others the purpose of the voter.
It follows that any device which insures absolute secrecy is not within the mischief condemned by our opinion.