Election security has always been a challenge in the American democratic process, but voter privacy wasn't always a concern.<br /><br />According to Time Magazine, historian Gil Troy says that before the Revolutionary War, colonists cast their votes by voice, not by ballots.<br /><br />In fact, voting took place at local carnivals. There, people—who may or may not have been drunk at the time—would call out their votes to be counted. <br /><br />Given the public nature of the process, not to mention how drunk the voters might be at the time, voting was very easily corruptible.<br /><br />It wasn't until 1892 that voting with paper ballots, and protecting the voter's privacy, became the generally accepted standard for holding fair elections.
