Women’s suffrage would not be introduced in Liechtenstein until 1984.

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I believe the Liechtensteinian constitution only guarantees a secret ballot in parliamentary elections. It’s not guaranteed that this vote also had a secret ballot (although it probably did).

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It doesn’t need to be constitutional, a simple law is enough.

Sure, if this was some kind of joke poll ignoring the most basic rules of democratic voting, I’ll stand corrected.

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I mean of course it doesn’t need to be a constitutional law, that was just the most basic of Liechtensteinian law I could quickly find (and many countries have it there, e.g. France). But it’s unwise to assume that the secret ballot is such a given in a voting process. Nigeria has open ballots iirc, and even the US does not technically have a system that guarantees a proper secret ballot (as mail-in votes technically don’t meet the criteria).

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Nigeria

It’s not a democratic process then by definition.

mail-in votes technically don’t meet the criteria

Now that’s a valid point. But how bold to assume, the vote was lost because men forced their women to use mail-in. In reality, reasons are much more complex.

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