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The big question touching a nerve this election: "Can my husband find out who I am voting for?"

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.”

drunkpostdisaster ,

I hate my gender so much.

foggy ,

Depends on who wins.

rand_alpha19 ,

Honestly, I love that my wife is a childless cat lady. It makes everything cheaper and easier. My life is better because I don't have kids, and I'm happy that we made that choice together as rational adults and that we were able to agree that this is the best path for us.

Anyone who chooses to have kids based on their values and circumstances is totally cool, whatever, as long as the kids aren't being abused or neglected, of course. That's your option and I respect it - someone has to have 'em.

But if you don't think people are capable of making the choice not to have kids and that it makes them sociopaths to not have kids, I'm pretty sure you're just an authoritarian who either hates women or has a breeding fetish. Maybe both.

Icalasari ,

Considering the sheer strain on the body pregnancy and birth have, I feel like being a mysoginist would automatically qualify one for a breeding fetish

morphballganon ,

Her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, her running mate,

But is he her running mate though?

RozhkiNozhki ,
@RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world avatar

I guess we’ll never know!

OhStopYellingAtMe ,
@OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world avatar

I caught that too, and was going to make a comment saying I caught that too.

solrize ,

And THIS is why unlimited vote by mail isn’t as great as some people think.

aniki ,

Why?

solrize ,

Because your abusive spouse/preacher/etc. can make you show your ballot, or even mark it for you.

catloaf ,

You can still go vote in person.

solrize ,

a) some states are pure vote by mail. b) if you have the option of voting at home, that exact same abuser can make you exercise it.

I used to oppose VBM because of this. Now I see it as a trade off since there are also benefits that can outweigh the problems. But a person with their eyes open should not pretend that the problems don’t exist.

catloaf ,

Which states? I am not aware of any that are solely vote by mail.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to screw up your ballot request. Throw it out when you get it, mess up the form, forget to sign, offer to take it to the post office and never mail it… Then it’s “oh no it never came, let’s just go vote in person”.

solrize ,

en.wikipedia.org/…/Postal_voting_in_the_United_St…

And, the existence of methods to escape abusers prevents some instances of abuse, but doesn’t eliminate the problem.

MajinBlayze ,

Just going to preface this by saying that I absolutely do support vote by mail, it’s objectively a good thing

However, there’s a problem that should be considered in that it can create opportunities for coerced voting either within a household, or by requiring someone to send a photo of their form.

The former being more of a problem than the later

aniki ,

But you can make that argument about anything…

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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?

aniki ,

MAGAt mad!

AbidanYre ,

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.”

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

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?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

The important thing is you know you won’t be getting a pony.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Would settle for some 1970s civil rights.

AA5B ,

How is this a big question? Isn’t this common knowledge, one of the first things you learn about voting?

originalucifer ,
@originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com avatar

learn about voting

these are fox news households were talkin about.. they want less voting, not more

Today ,

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.

BenVimes ,

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).

nondescripthandle ,

The fact that people put up with partners that make them wonder this is not great.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Many marriages are still fundamentally financial arrangements. Living together is cheaper, especially with kids. And when you own half of each other’s stuff (particularly when that stuff is real estate or retirement or cars) decoupling isn’t simple.

Hellinabucket ,

My parents have been married for 35 years cause it’s cheaper than getting divorced.

morphballganon ,

It’s not ideal. Alas, people change, and sometimes you realize you’re stuck in situations where bailing would cause undue hardship to your kids, so you try to make it work.

ganksy ,
@ganksy@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t know…if my wife voted for trump we might have impassible dispositions. I’d have to rethink some shit.

glimse ,

Emotional/psychological/sometimes physical abuse can do that to someone. Especially after the slow, deliberate dismantling of your social circle that sociopaths like to do. Add to that the stigma of being a single mom…

TheBigBrother ,

How about my wife?

Cephalotrocity ,

Nobody can know who you voted for in the booth unless you tell them. Just that you voted. Ballots are unsigned and you place it in the box (supervised, but folded and unexamined) yourself.

nkat2112 ,
@nkat2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

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