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Couldn't a church just require congregants to send a picture of their ballot from inside a voting booth? Is there any basis in reality for this?
by IncreasePosts 2y ago
Couldn't a church just require congregants to send a picture of their ballot from inside a voting booth?
Is there any basis in reality for this?
- dragonwriter 2y ago> Couldn’t a church just require congregants to send a picture of their ballot from inside a voting booth? They could, though there are some problems with that: (1) It is generally illegal to ask people to do that, (2) Voters could “comply” with such a demand and simply mark a ballot the way the church wanted, take a picture, tell poll workers they had made an error marking their ballot and needed a replacement, have the ballot they photographed discarded, mark the replacement with their honest preferences, and cast that ballot. Of course, (1) applies to the proposed scenario with mail-in ballots, and why large groups that aren’t already tightly-knit cults where they wouldn’t need to worry about defectors with secret ballots anyway would do it – it only takes on defector to get the whole group busted.
- ForHackernews 2y agoIt's already illegal to do voter fraud!
- ndiddy 2y agoI'm not sure how the laws are in all states, but where I am it's illegal to use a camera or cell phone within 100 feet of a voting booth so if you tried to take a picture of your ballot, you'd likely get asked to put the camera away by a poll worker. This was done with the specific intent of protecting the privacy of people's votes.