Editing Henry George (section)

===Secret ballot===
[[File:George de Forest Brush - Henry George - NPG.67.53 - National Portrait Gallery.jpg|thumb|Artist: [[George de Forest Brush]], Sitter: Henry George, Date: 1888]]

George was one of the earliest and most prominent advocates of the [[secret ballot]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_lepore |title=Rock, Paper, Scissors: How we used to vote |first=Jill |last=Lepore |author-link=Jill Lepore |work=New Yorker |date=October 13, 2008}}</ref> [[Harvard]] historian [[Jill Lepore]] asserts that Henry George's advocacy is the reason Americans vote with secret ballots today.<ref name="nytimes.com" /> George's first article in support of the secret ballot was entitled "Bribery in Elections" and was published in the ''Overland Review'' of December 1871. His second article was "Money in Elections," published in the ''North American Review'' of March 1883. The first secret ballot reform approved by a state legislature was brought about by reformers who said they were influenced by George.<ref>{{cite book |last=Saltman |first=Roy |title=The history and politics of voting technology : chads and other scandals |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |year=2008 |page=97 |isbn=978-0230605985}}</ref> The first state to adopt the secret ballot, also called The Australian Ballot, was Massachusetts in 1888 under the leadership of Richard Henry Dana III. By 1891, more than half the states had adopted it too.<ref>For a more complete discussion of the adoption of the Australian Ballot, see Saltman, Roy G., (2006), ''The History and Politics of Voting Technology,'' Palgrave Macmillan, NY, pp.&nbsp;96–103.</ref>