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Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot
An anonymous reader writes "Proud voters are already posting their ballots on Instagram but ProPublica's Lois Beckett reports that you may want to check your state laws first since showing your marked ballot to other people is actually illegal in many states."
So you're saying any way to make sure the machine correctly recorded your vote is a bad idea?
No, the minimum wage law IS corruption! It is corruption, it is BUYING THE VOTES. How is that not corruption? That's the worst corruption that exists!
A politician promising voters something that they supposedly will get out of somebody is legalized theft and in case of minimum wage is simply legalized bribery. AFAIC all of the social agenda laws are completely corrupt on the fundamental level because those are just handouts that allow politicians to buy votes.
Look at this thread, which I started. I said something there, I said:
Why would you want to allow your State to do that to you, to throw you in jail for a year and fine you thousands of dollars for telling people how you voted?
and did you see some of the responses?
for example:
"Since you can prove you voted ${candidate}, I'll give you ${thing}"
So in this case people are 'outraged' that votes can be bought.
Well excuse me, votes are bought much before the elections day. Votes are bought with the promise of taking something from some people and giving it to others.
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, it's mobocracy, it's the reason why the US Founders didn't go for democracy, they preferred monarchy to democracy. They established a system with many checks and balances that would deny ability of one branch of gov't to take over for example and do something that is 'popular'.
Yet the politicians are lawyers and they figured out ways to go around laws (at first, now they are just brazen about it).
Votes are bought and sold, that's government corruption and it's done with laws just like minimum wage.
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