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A federal judge recently ruled that banning photos of ballots was unconstitutional:
The ruling clears the way for New Hampshire voters to post their ballot selfies during the first-in-the-nation presidential primaries early next year.
New Hampshire's ban went into effect September 2014 and made it illegal for anyone to post a photo of a marked ballot and share it on social media. The violation was punishable by a fine of up to $1,000.
[...] Mashable's Juana Summers adds that the judge found "there was no evidence that vote-buying or voter coercion were current problems in New Hampshire."
This seems like an interesting legal question, with good arguments on both sides:
- For the ban: If a photograph of a marked ballot is taken from the voting booth, then the voter can verify their vote with an interested third party, including those that would seek to purchase or coerce their vote.
- Against the ban: Such a photograph is protected free speech, and thus cannot be legally banned.
What do Soylentils think about this?
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Tuesday August 25 2015, @12:07AM
Yea, amazing what passes for 'thought' among progs. There isn't a problem because of the success of the very laws they just overthrew. In other words, they were tossed out because they worked. Of course they really aren't that stupid, they know exactly what they are doing, bringing back vote fraud and abuse. This is part of the same pattern where demanding a photo ID to vote is racist but you can't go into a courthouse to launch that case without showing one and that is ok.
They want to generally undermine the vote. Mail in ballots and extended voting are even more dangerous. But just wait, soon you will be expected to post a photo of your ballot to keep your job in political machines. Then in any job where SJW infection has hit critical mass. And of course posting the photo won't be the point, showing it marked 'the right way' will be.