Can my husband find out who I am voting for in the Presidential Election?"
Olivia Dreizen Howell, the founder of a website to help women get back on their feet after a breakup or divorce, tweeted last week, “We’ve been getting this question a lot,” so she followed up with some facts. As the Washington Post confirmed with experts, the answer is simple: “No; it will be public record that you voted, but not how you filled out your ballot.”
The GOP ticket is led by a sexual predator who a jury found “‘raped’ [journalist E. Jean Carroll] as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” the judge in the case wrote. His running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, has called for a national abortion ban, wrote the forward to a book that denounced contraception for making pregnancy “seem like an optional and not natural result of having sex,” and repeatedly called women who haven’t given birth “sociopathic” and “childless cat ladies.”
Meanwhile, the Democratic ticket is led by a woman who chose “Freedom” by Beyoncé as her campaign song, and has dispensed with the mealy-mouthed language about abortion rights to declare she stands for “the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body.” Her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, her running mate, has decried “weird” MAGA Republicans of the “he-man woman haters’ club.”
Imagine how it has come down to this.
I salute the women, minorities, and all folks who have decency and do the right thing during this and all other elections. Let’s all please be sure to vote.
OMG freedom by Beyonce is my jamz 🤣
Too bad she sounds like poo
No, but they can generally find out what party you’re registered to if your state does things as such.
The big question touching a nerve this election: “Can my husband find out who I am voting for?”
That’s one of those questions I feel like, if you find yourself asking it, you should probably get out of that marriage. (I know easier said than done)
That’s one of those questions I feel like, if you find yourself asking it, you should probably get out of that marriage. (I know easier said than done)
Why do you think Republicans want to get rid of no fault divorce?
So the kids they marry can’t leave, duh.
While you still can!
Honestly. As a guy who is lefty (and bi, but mostly dates women). The dating scene has been way easier these past 5 or so years.
The political male-female divide means that right wing women, and left wing men, are far more “in demand” among heterosexual people. (queer people are majoritarily leftwing so it matters less there.)
Peter Thiel is really suffering though… and we can celebrate that.
I certainly can celebrate that. I’m stuck reading his stupid book “Zero to One” for a work extracurricular. Can’t wait to discuss it with the EVP who chose it.
“work extracurricular” oof stolen wages
Not really. It’s not mandatory. I generally love where I work, so I signed up for this. Didn’t know this would be book 1. If the reading selection continues at this quality level p, I’ll happily drop out and go back to reading all the Bosch universe books!
I hate that guy so fucking much. It really disenchanted me from NZ that they literally sold him citizenship.
You’re thinking about it the wrong way. We should be thanking NZ for pulling them all to one central location.
He’s not actually living in NZ. He just bought citizenship which allowed him to buy the native and protected lands he wanted to buy (only citizens are allowed to buy them).
Yes, but that was so he could install his bunker there like all the other paranoid billionaires, yes?
Hows the concrete industry in NZ? I imagine that sealing all those bunkers will be a priority once the rich assholes have locked themselves inside.
As someone who’s worked multiple elections, your ballot is never tied to your name/ID. Even if someone broke into the box and stole the ballots, there’s no way to know whos is who.
When ballots are audited/recounted, its based on things like the number of ballots vs the number of recorded voters, the signature of the precinct officer, and the qualities of the ballot itself. No identifying informationm.
This is not even remotely true for mail in ballots. They are returned in an envelope that has your name, address and signature on it.
Honest question : on mail in ballots even though you name is on the envelope, doesn’t the envelope get separated from the ballot? So there is no real way to know who voted for whom? @recklessengagement@lemmy.world
My state mail in procedure is to send your ballot in an envelope without identifying info, and that envelope goes inside a larger envelope so they can verify you. I assume they separate it for counting later
I have worked elections too. Can confirm. The ballot is separated from identifying info once validated.
True, but once they are recieved, they’re seperated from the identifying information. It’s not stored in a database somewhere.
The only time I’d argue this isn’t the case would be for provisional ballots, where they often will send you a letter after it gets processed.
The GOP ticket is led by a sexual predator who a jury found “‘raped’ [journalist E. Jean Carroll
Meanwhile, the Democratic ticket is led by a woman who chose “Freedom” by Beyoncé as her campaign song
Okay, but what about women’s rights to health care? Do they have legislative priorities? Which one of these candidates is willing to stack the court or assign reproductive rights lawyers to the DOJ? Any forthcoming executive actions? Policies? Anything?
Was it really that hard to read the whole sentence?
and has dispensed with the mealy-mouthed language about abortion rights to declare she stands for “the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body.”
declare she stands for “the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body.”
Okay, so what does this means as actual policy? Is she appointing the head of NARAL her AG or is she just going to put a bumper sticker on Air Force One?
The important thing is you know you won’t be getting a pony.
Would settle for some 1970s civil rights.
MAGAt mad!
Depends on who wins.
“Mind your own business”. Of course some men, mostly Republican men, think they own their wives.
How is this a big question? Isn’t this common knowledge, one of the first things you learn about voting?
I’ll fully admit to being completely ignorant about voting the first time I did it. I was politically disengaged for moody teenager reasons, but my parents forced me to go to the polling station anyway. I didn’t care to vote for any of the candidates, but was also worried that I would get in trouble if I spoiled my ballot because I hadn’t paid attention in civics (again, for moody teenager reasons).
Voting is not something we do everyday or for most people even every year. Sometimes Democrat and Republican primaries are held in different rooms or at different locations, So if this is your first time or that’s all you know, it’s a real question.
The polling places in some rural municipalities are literally Masonic lodges where they make you announce out loud to all in attendance which primary you want to vote in.
My parents still vote at a fucking gun club.
Wait. There are places where your primary party is not public knowledge when you vote? Fuuuck. (it’s usually a fire hall, not a lodge in my experience.)
learn about voting
these are fox news households were talkin about… they want less voting, not more
They definitely made a big deal about it when I was in elementary school.
I hate my gender so much.
Last presidential election here in Brazil some churches were asking their people to swap children with other couples so that those children could keep watch to ensure everybody is voting for the right candidate (children are the only ones allowed to join you in the voting booth).
Christians are such cucks. Imagine being a part of a church that uses children to snitch on you to other congregants.
literally a threat to democracy.
Literally grooming children to obey no matter what.
they do that too, don’t they? fucking monsters.
In God we trust.
Everybody else needs to be surveilled by children when voting. I don’t make the rules
The answer to the headline is “No”.
The answer is no, BUT, if you’re that worried about it, perhaps your choice of husband is a problem.
Man that last paragraph is kind of a train wreck isn’t it?
My wife is going to vote for Harris/Walz. She’s told me several times. I think I’m gonna vote for them too.
I used to vote for the Democratic candidate.
I still vote for the Democrats, but I used to too.
I miss Mitch 😫
My wife wanted to sit out the election when it was Biden running over his unending support of the slaughter in Gaza, and the only thing that got her out to vote was that the were also some ballot measures which needed votes. I wrote on Cenk Uyger for the primary myself, not sure how she voted. Now we’re both super excited to vote for Harris/Walz
Obviously we’ve got fairly similar political views
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