The Baha'i Studies Listserv I'm talking about civil law, here in the U.S. of America. If you want to keep your vote a secret, the American civil law allows you to keep it a secret and protects you. If you want to reveal your vote, you can do so and you have not violated any American civil law. The choice is yours, and yours only. No one and no government agency or court can force you to divulge your vote, here in these United States of America.
Best regards, Iskandar Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Jeanine H. <jeanin...@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:06:31 To: Baha'i Studies<bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> Subject: Re: Political views The Baha'i Studies Listserv I agree that we are probably not obliged to keep it a secret, because I've not yet seen in the Writings that there is such a specified obligation. Exercising wisdom by choosing not to reveal it is a different matter. I have seen people "typecast" because they revealed their vote, and I usually don't find that helpful in teaching the Faith (particularly in the current, highly-partisan atmosphere in the U.S.). IMO only. Jeanine On 3/31/2010 9:45 AM, Iskandar Hai, M.D. wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > You have no obligation to divulge your vote. It's your choice. Nobody will > prosecute you if you do voluntarily reveal your own (secret) vote. But you > cannot be coerced to divulge your vote. > > Best regards, > Iskandar > > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan Maneck<sman...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:40:23 > To: Baha'i Studies<bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> > Subject: Re: Political views > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > >> Your vote is secret. You do not have to divulge your vote to any person or >> agency, etc. >> > I don't know that we are obliged to keep it a secret, however. > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:iskan...@buffalo.edu Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-496281-249...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:%%emailaddr%% Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:%%email.unsub%% Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/%%list.name%% Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
