Jonah Goldberg has a good story on the pernicious nature of the card-check bill in today’s National Review Online, where he quotes Jim Hoffa saying that the secret ballot is not “a basic tenet of democracy.” Of course, as I point out in a new paper for the Heritage Foundation, Hoffa does not quite have that attitude towards his own internal elections. The Teamsters constitution requires that all elections for officers “shall be conducted by secret ballot.” All delegates to conventions where officers are elected must also “be chosen by secret ballot” — the rules governing the delegate elections must “be designed to ensure a fair, free, and democratic election.” In other words, Hoffa does not support secret ballots to assure that union representation elections in the workplace are “fair, free, and democratic,” just his own elections to lead his union.