Secret ballot: "The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices are confidential. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery." (from "Wikipedia the free encyclopedia").

Ballot: "The action or system of secret voting" (from New College Merriam-Webster English Dictionary, page 88, definition 2a).

Plus, not only has voting by secret ballot long been integral to what’s called our “democratic process” and protective of us voters against intimidation and/or bribery, etc, but those people, organizations (including unions), and/or governments who mount any overt or covert efforts against such as voting by secret ballot, have all long been quite accurately and correctly identified as elitist totalitarians who are thus actually opposed to what’s called our “democratic process”, such as voting by secret ballot, and thus also what’s called “democracy” itself.

With these facts, and others, it becomes extremely evident and obvious, (except perhaps to such as Leftist/elitist totalitarian union thugs, their Leftist/elitist government allies, and their Leftist/elitist flunkies), that any covert and/or overt efforts against what’s called our “democratic” process and protection of voting by secret ballot, including the misleadingly so-called "Employee Free Choice Act", are not to promote and safeguard our “democratic principles and practices”, such as voting with the protection of secret ballots, but are instead evidently and obviously meant to subvert and overrule them for a freedoms, businesses, jobs, and economy-killing Leftist/elitist totalitarian agenda, in the name of “unionizing”, of course.

that Obama will not!

by Seth Michaels, Jan 15, 2009

This week, the hard-right Heritage Foundation—a major funding source for corporate-friendly and anti-union research and spin—released its Index of Economic Freedom, an annual ranking of the economic climate of the world’s nations. Using Heritage’s numbers, it seems the organization should take a second look at its anti-union spin: The figures show that many of these countries have, by comparison to the United States, very high rates of union membership.

Matthew Yglesias, a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, compares the union density of the top 10 economically strong countries on the Heritage list:

Hong Kong—22.1 percent

Singapore—18.5 percent

Australia—20.0 percent

Ireland—35.0 percent

New Zealand—21.1 percent

United States—12.0 percent

Canada—29.7 percent

Denmark—80.0 percent

Switzerland—25.0 percent

United Kingdom—28.4 percent

What’s more, most of the countries Heritage considers to have a high degree of “economic freedom” have far more worker-friendly labor laws than we do in this nation. In Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the process for forming a union and bargaining is controlled by workers, not by bosses. Indeed, of the top 20 countries on the Heritage list, 16 have labor laws similar to the Employee Free Choice Act, letting workers have the choice to form unions through majority sign-up. In giving corporations veto power over how workers form unions, the United States is a rare exception among industrialized democracies.

Heritage’s own numbers show the hollowness of their attacks on the Employee Free Choice Act. Strong economies around the world go hand-in-hand with the freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life. Indeed, one of the biggest impediments to U.S. economic performance is that prosperity isn’t broadly shared, and workers lack the purchasing power and economic security that allows them to reach the middle class and participate in creating economic growth. Without the power to bargain for better wages and benefits, Yglesias notes, U.S. workers have been trapped in an unsustainable cycle of debt.

In part because of the lobbying efforts of anti-worker groups like Heritage, corporations in the United States treat workers’ freedom to form unions as a threat, and block workers’ ability to exercise this basic human right. That’s not economic freedom—and it’s not helping our struggling economy.

So take a look at your own numbers, Heritage. Widespread union membership and worker-friendly labor laws can—and should—be part of a healthy economy.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/01/15/guess-what-heri…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1b2UtZ2S6Q

And my favorite of all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu4oj_2E1jE

Clearly a Card Check system would corrupt the voting process, open the doors to voter intimidation …