Why do Americans have their political affiliation publicly registered?

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In a lot of countries voting is by secret ballot so why in the US do people have their affiliation publicly registered? The point of secret ballots is to avoid harassment from political opponents, is this not a problem over there?

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>The point of secret ballots is to avoid harassment from political opponents, 

 We do have secret ballots. No one knows who I voted for. 

>is this not a problem over there?

I’m almost 60 years old.  I’ve never been harassed because somone looked up my voter registration and went after me.  No one I know has experienced it.  Where I live,  the most that happens is pror to a primary a candidate might reach out to voters registered to their own party and ask for their vote in the primary

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