Insulator
A insulator is a physical device placed in a Polling station charged to dissimulate the choice of those which take part in a secret vote. Founded in Australia in 1857, this device generally takes the shape of a cabin closed by a curtain today.
In France, it makes it possible to the voter to place his bulletin in an envelope at the shelter of the inquisitive eyes. This operation takes place before it moves towards the ballot box where it is slipped.
That poses the problem of the E-voting by machines to be voted since this concept (to be with the shelter of the inquisitive eyes) disappears. thus, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, “Nobody can see for whom you vote. The machine, provided with partitions which make function of insulator, will be positioned so that the confidentiality of the vote is completely guaranteed (...) Moreover the choices of vote are stored in a random way in the memories of the machine”.
History
The insulator was adopted in 1872 by the the United Kingdom, in 1877 in Belgium and 1903 in Germany.
In France, where the secret Vote is constitutionalized since 1795, it becomes obligatory only in 1913 (Law of July 29th, 1913). The law comes after forty years discussions during which its best partisans are the radicals and the Socialists.
Religion
In the Christian parishes, the Confessionnal is sometimes called insulator.
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