Secret Intelligence Service | Victoria's Secret | The Secret Garden | United States Secret Service | On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | secret society | Secret Service | Secret Invasion | Secret Warriors | Victoria's Secret Fashion Show | The Secret Storm | The Secret Life of the American Teenager | Secret Water | Vatican Secret Archives | Secret of the Rosary | Secret Garden Party | Secret Diary of a Call Girl | My Secret Identity | The Secret Millionaire | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Secret Wars | secret service | Secret Garden | secret | Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century | I've Got a Secret | The Secret Saturdays | The Secret Policeman's Other Ball | The Secret of NIMH |
Putney Swope, the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, is accidentally put in charge after the unexpected death of the chairman of the board: each board member actually believed that he, himself, should be elected chairman, but the bylaws of the corporation prohibit voting for oneself, so each individual member voted his secret ballot for the person that no one else would vote for: Putney Swope.
In June 2009, Sheerman called for a secret ballot of the Parliamentary Labour Party on whether Gordon Brown should continue in office as prime minister.
In the second half of the 19th century, the use of the secret ballot spread to the USA and to Europe; in 1892 Grover Cleveland became the first US President elected by Boothby’s system, universally referred to as 'the Australian ballot' for nearly a century.