What does voting by secret ballot mean?

Question

What does voting by secret ballot mean?

a. Only the candidate you vote for can watch your marked ballot.

b. No one can watch you vote except the election officer.

c. The voter should not tell anyone for whom he/she voted.

d. No one can watch you vote or look at your marked ballot.

Answer 1

I agree with Raymond, the correct answer here would be (d). When you vote by secret ballot nobody should see how you are marking your choices.

Answer 2

d It's a secret ballot. No one sees or knows whom you voted for, unless you tell them or otherwise allow them to know.

well, that's theoretically true. With private companies being paid to run computer voting, they seem to have access to everyone's choice. Then there's hackers, Chinese, Russian, others tapping in. Computers have trails, metadata and more, easily deciphered, deprogrammed. Then there's those video cameras in voting areas that capture you as you punch the computer card. Who has access to those videotapes? Or the drop boxes, with mules loading it with ballots at night. Proxy voting ballots given to mules or others.

or you're registered 3rd party, the only person that way in the precinct and official results show only one vote for that 3rd party candidate. Virtually certain they know you voted for that 3rd party candidate.

they check your social media posts on the internet, facebook, twittter, and with virtual certainty know how you voted.

Or CIA drones snapping pictures through your bedroom window, like they did to Sen. Diane Feinstein. They know exactly who you voted for. There is no "privacy" anymore.