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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.”

Jordan117 ,

Important to note that the same is not true for political donations. Idk what the cutoff is but even relatively small amounts get reported to the FEC and make their way into various searchable public databases. Just something to keep in mind if you’re in a vulnerable situation.

Gsus4 ,
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This is an issue with voting by mail in any country.

Nurse_Robot ,

What are you talking about

Gsus4 ,
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When both spouses vote together by mail at home, one may want to see what the other is submitting and condition them to vote the way they want.

Nurse_Robot ,

There are a lot of solutions to that problem. Fill out your vote when the other isn’t home, vote in person, leave your spouse, etc. Doesn’t seem like much of a problem to me

Gsus4 , (edited )
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haha, leave your spouse :)

But really, I can see an abusive overbearing or just manipulative family member definitely doing this. It may not be statistically significant enough to impact an election, but there is no way to ensure there was no coercion.

Nurse_Robot ,

Jesus Christ I’m not going down that rabbit hole. I realize the most dangerous thing an abused person can do is try to leave the relationship, but that’s only one of the several options I listed. I genuinely don’t understand why you’re criticizing mail in ballots; my best guess is that you’ve seen enough far right propaganda that you genuinely think giving more people more access to voting is a bad thing.

Gsus4 , (edited )
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It’s not an agenda against mail-in ballots, it’s just a minor flaw I noticed with some friends that is relevant to the title, but for some reason I seem to have offended the gods of voting turnout by stating it in a public forum. Seriously, some people perk their ears for the littlest reason.

…But that’s ok…sometimes one can trigger the immune response in a community by saying something that could be misconstrued as contrarian.

bdonvr , (edited )

No, but they can generally find out what party you’re registered to if your state does things as such.

recklessengagement ,
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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.

Dkarma ,

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.

andrewta ,

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

tigeruppercut ,

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

joenforcer ,

I have worked elections too. Can confirm. The ballot is separated from identifying info once validated.

recklessengagement ,
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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.

HorseRabbit ,

Man that last paragraph is kind of a train wreck isn’t it?

rayyy ,

“Mind your own business”. Of course some men, mostly Republican men, think they own their wives.

Fullyloadedsnowflake ,

OMG freedom by Beyonce is my jamz 🤣

Dkarma ,

Too bad she sounds like poo

lud ,

The answer to the headline is “No”.

InternetUser2012 ,

The answer is no, BUT, if you’re that worried about it, perhaps your choice of husband is a problem.

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