Wall Street Journal: “The case before the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston pits longstanding policies favoring ballot secrecy—generally adopted in the U.S. in the 19th century to stanch then-rampant vote buying—against a form of smartphone-enabled expression popular with young voters.”
“Since at least 1979 it has been illegal in New Hampshire for a voter to show his ballot to someone else with the intention of disclosing how he plans to vote. In 2014, state legislators amended the law to include a ban on ‘taking a digital image or photograph of his or her marked ballot and distributing or sharing the image via social media.’ The aim of the law: to guard against hypothetical vote-buying schemes in which ballot selfies serve as proof of performance.”
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