---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 2421.15"
title: "5"
number: "2421.15"
heading: "Secret ballot."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/2421.15"
---

# §2421.15. 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, except in that instance in which any determinative challenged ballot is opened.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 3 U.S.C. 431; 5 U.S.C. 7134.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 3497, Jan. 17, 1980, unless otherwise noted.