Voters are only allowed to take pictures of their own ballots. No selfies are allowed in the voting booth or in that general area. The press is only allowed to film a limited part of the polling area with no voting booths or ballots in view.
This depends on location. There was a thing a few years ago of people taking selfies with their ballots and posting them publicly. This becomes a very serious concern when the secret ballot - and preventing external pressures to vote a certain way - comes into question.
Some places consider it free speech to announce (and prove) who you’re voting for; others view it as an invasion of the ballot box. I don’t believe it’s ever been reviewed by the courts.
I guarantee that if some idiot walked in live streaming, they’d just let them vote and get them out the door.
Hell, two idiots literally did that while dressed as Muslims and doing horrible fake accents like a week or two ago for early voting. They’re getting felonies because they just kept early voting under other people’s names, but they filmed the whole fucking thing including intros that said they’re doing election fraud. And then put it online.
It’s literally the article you’re commenting on…
But what’s even crazier to me is people just assume any of these rules will be enforced.
There’s an absolutely huge difference between:
Not allowed to do that
Someone stopping you from doing that
And by 2026 we should all understand that, because that’s the game the wealthy and powerful have been playing for generations.
It’s bigger than selfies while voting, our next president needs to operate under “try and stop me” if they want any kind of shot at fixing stuff.
Voters are only allowed to take pictures of their own ballots. No selfies are allowed in the voting booth or in that general area. The press is only allowed to film a limited part of the polling area with no voting booths or ballots in view.
This depends on location. There was a thing a few years ago of people taking selfies with their ballots and posting them publicly. This becomes a very serious concern when the secret ballot - and preventing external pressures to vote a certain way - comes into question.
Some places consider it free speech to announce (and prove) who you’re voting for; others view it as an invasion of the ballot box. I don’t believe it’s ever been reviewed by the courts.
ETA: fixed autocorrect again
I guarantee that if some idiot walked in live streaming, they’d just let them vote and get them out the door.
Hell, two idiots literally did that while dressed as Muslims and doing horrible fake accents like a week or two ago for early voting. They’re getting felonies because they just kept early voting under other people’s names, but they filmed the whole fucking thing including intros that said they’re doing election fraud. And then put it online.
It’s literally the article you’re commenting on…
But what’s even crazier to me is people just assume any of these rules will be enforced.
There’s an absolutely huge difference between:
Not allowed to do that
Someone stopping you from doing that
And by 2026 we should all understand that, because that’s the game the wealthy and powerful have been playing for generations.
It’s bigger than selfies while voting, our next president needs to operate under “try and stop me” if they want any kind of shot at fixing stuff.