If you posted a picture on Facebook or Twitter showing the world how you voted or how you intended to vote — those beautiful early ballots — you may have broken the law.
Folks at the Citizen Media Law Project put together a chart of the states whose laws prohibit taking pictures of your ballot. You can read the chart here.
BTW: “X” means that there is a law which may prohibit photographing or filming one’s own marked ballot. On that note, next there’s an X next to Arizona. So, while voting exhibitionism is fun, be careful out there. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett might be watching, and someone (read: you) could get hurt.
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
Man if I had known this was the case I would have snapped a picture of my mail-in ballot before I handed it over in person today, along with a sticky note that said something along the lines of “Fuck you Ken Bennett, I DO WHAT I WANT!” Any resulting criminal prosecution, while ugly, would theoretically be hilarious.