... govt. tackle corruption because if the voting was done in secret people could not be intimidated into voting for a particular party, as nobody would know who the voted for. Corruption was however still a large presence in the votes being cast until the 1883 corrupt and legal practices act stamped down on it making it illegal to corrupt the franchise. Another reason to agree with the statement was that all men could vote. Up until the 1918 Representation of the people act, a huge number of men could not vote through one reason or another. The main reason a man could not vote was they were not renting or owning a property valued over £10 or maybe even more. However when the 1918 act was introduced there was universal male suffrage and women over the age of thirty could vote. Although there was not total adult suffrage that act was ...

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