Is Tweeting Your Ballot Breaking the Law?

Social media has become such a major part of our society that it is not surprising that some people felt the need to tweet a picture of who they voted for during this past presidential election.  However doing this is actually breaking the law because most states prohibit filming or photographing inside poling places.

While it is technology not against the law in some states, Rhode Island for example, taking pictures of your ballot says a lot about where the direction this country is headed towards. Before voting used to be a personal decision that wasn’t announced to a large group of people, but that has clearly changed.

With the increase of social media platforms, more and more people felt the need to discuss their opinion and political views throughout these mediums, making their political stance very evident.  The candidates also used Twitter and Facebook to target and get their message across to a large group of people.

Even though technology has become such a huge part of connecting with people, I still think that people should keep images of who they voted for to themselves, it really isn’t anyones business who someone might have voted for.

Reference: http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/06/technology/mobile/photo-ballot-voting-law/index.html