You get one of these ballot forms at random, and then you go into the voting booth, and you mark your choices, and you tear along a perforation.

So for example, you come to the polling station, and a poll station worker asks for your ID before giving you a ballot form and asking you to go into a voting booth to fill out your vote.

The following tweet illustrates without much doubt that the government willfully shut down the internet on the eve of the publication of the country's electoral results

Check in regularly at Voices Without Votes until Americans finally hit the polls and elect a president in November 2008.

Is this constitution really separating the powers economical, political, religious?

When you come back out, you get to drop your vote into the ballot box where it mixes with all the other votes, so that no one knows how you voted.

Socialist candidate Francois Hollande collected 51.90 of the votes against 48.10 for incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy in this second round of voting.

And remember, the vote is encrypted from the moment you leave the voting booth, so if an election official wants to find out how you voted, they will not be able to.

Whenever there is an election, it seems like something always goes wrong, someone tries to cheat, or something goes accidentally awry a ballot box goes missing here, chads are left hanging over here.