For months now, Republican lobbyists and legislators have been carpet-bombing the airwaves with one phrase: "secret ballot, secret ballot, secret ballot." As in, "the Employee Free Choice Act will eliminate the secret ballot [it will not, as even the Wall Street Journal acknowledges] which is the only means to democracy in the workplace [it is not]."
And, I mean, they're lying both about the elimination and about the secrecy and the democracy of the form of election they call by that name. But, damn, they really value it, right?
Not so much, as the Washington Independent highlights:
In its own elections, the RNC actually prohibits the use of secret ballots.
Here’s the relevant RNC Rule [RNC Rules, Rule No. 7(d), pg. 7]:
No votes (except elections to office when properly ordered pursuant to the provisions of Robert’s Rules of Order) shall be taken by secret ballot in any open meeting of the Republican National Committee or of any committee thereof.
Calling Republicans out for hypocrisy long ago lost any novelty, what with all the opportunities they give us by being massive hypocrites on every front. But even by the standards of the homophobic party whose elected officials are forever being busted in public restrooms, this is kind of rich.