By the end of the nineteenth century all of the States in the U.S. adopted the method of using secret ballots, chiefly to guard against vote selling and vote buying. Recently, in the same spirit, New Hampshire outlawed ballot selfies. The fear was that taking of selfie with your marked ballot made it easy to you sell your vote and easy for the buyer to verify how the vote was cast. To me this tweak is a no brainer. It merely updates the spirit of an old law and one that seems (to me) necessary.
However, to my surprise, a Federal Court found against the new law. Apparently the ACLA supported the plaintiff.
http://nyti.ms/1U2r28u
The ACLA seems to think ballot-selfies are a form of free speech. Perhaps, but a ban on posting ballot-selfies is not a ban on posting or making general known who it is that you voted for.
The ACLA also claims law enforcement should go after the buyers not the selfie-takers. It seems to me, that enforcement should go after the sellers as well as the buyers and ballot-selfies just make buying, vote selling and voter booth coercion way too easy.
Am I wrong here? What do you think?