---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 401.11"
title: "29"
number: "401.11"
heading: "Secret ballot."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/401.11"
---

# §401.11. Secret ballot.


Secret ballot means the expression by ballot, voting machine, or otherwise, but in no event by proxy, of a choice with respect to any election or vote taken upon any matter, which is cast in such a manner that the person expressing such choice cannot be identified with the choice expressed.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 3, 208, 301, 401, 402, 73 Stat. 520, 529, 530, 532, 534 (29 U.S.C. 402, 438, 461, 481, 482); Secretary's Order No. 03-2012, 77 FR 69376, November 16, 2012; § 401.4 also issued under sec. 320 of Title III of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, Pub. L. 95-598, 92 Stat. 2678.

### Source

Source: 28 FR 14380, Dec. 27, 1963, unless otherwise noted.