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The noisy public vote was replaced in New York State by a secret ballot in 1852, but privacy was discarded the following year on the ground that it “insulted the manliness and independence of the laboring man.”
Secret voting in national elections became Federal law in 1875, but Kentucky held State elections by voice vote until 1891.
Paper ballots were used as early as 1634 in Massachusetts. But these and later ballots were unofficial and provided by the voter himself, and were not necessarily marked in secret.
When ballots increased
94.5%