> 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

> 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.