Secret ballot elections are the only ones you can trust which is why they are a stable of many democracies from the beginning. You can trust it because you hav

Secret ballot elections are the only ones you can trust which is why they are a stable of many democracies from the beginning. You can trust it because you have enough observers, whom are indeed important to select well (covering all the biases). They monitor the voting and counting to make cheating on a large scale a large conspiracy, which by definition must have large public support.