politics

Judges house was burned down and her husband and son injured jumping from the house to avoid fire, no cause yet, but judge had been recieving death threats for weeks for blocking trump administration's attempt to get voter data 

https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-v

One of my more radical beliefs is that many more classes of governance actions should be anonymous / secret ballot (eg. I've advocated for secret-ballot UN general assembly votes before)

This situation is a good argument for judges' identities being hidden (!!) when they make their rulings. The function of a judge is to rule according to the facts as interpreted through their conscience, not to be "accountable" to violent mobs.

What happened to that judge shows why some level of anonymity can matter. In politics or governance, participants could first vote anonymously, verified with zero-knowledge proofs, on whether a decision itself should be anonymous. 

If about 60% agree, the final vote would follow the same process, with a clear reason, delayed release, and checks to keep it honest.