2.4 Voting Process and Secret ballot

The polling day's choreography (the Act-and-Rules discipline): the polling station's layout (the entrance-check, the identity verification, the booth's privacy); the identity's proof (the voter ID card, the biometric verification); the ballot's issue and the marking (the symbol's secrecy — the inaccessible-marking risk for the new voters); the secrecy of the ballot — the principle's genealogy (the 1856 Australia's ballot reform — "the Australian ballot" by name) and its Nepal guarantees: the closed booth, the prohibition of photography-and-display, the family-voting bar (the wife's-or-daughter's ballot marked by the male elder — the observer's classic violation report), the assisted voting's discipline (the disability's-and-elderly's help by the authorised person); the counting (the counting centre's security, the candidates' agents, the count-and-recount, the result sheet's certification — the RO's declaration); and the election materials' custody (the 35- day ballot preservation era for disputes — the Act's evidence discipline). The principle's core: thevote is the voter's alone — unwatched, unforced, unrecorded.