Summary:

Amid rising early voting numbers from women in battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—where they make up 55% of ballots cast—some conservative voices are panicking. Right-wing commentators are sounding the alarm, fearing that even MAGA-supporting husbands’ wives might be casting secret ballots for Kamala Harris.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, has put it starkly: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.” Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

  • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    You’re hidden while filling the ballot aren’t you? Not hard to take it out and take a picture because your crazy spouse wants to make sure you vote “for the right person”

    • bitwolf
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      It is a crime in Texas to take photograph s within 100ft of a voting machine

      It was annoying too, because Texas has huge ballots, and I took notes on my phone to help me.

    • @Today@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      No. Mine looks like this but more spaced out. They have signs up about phones and the room is very well monitored. I tried to use my phone last time because i had screenshotted my vote411. They gave me a pen and a paper to go outside and write them down instead.

      Edit-forgot the pic.

      • @DBT@lemmy.world
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        513 hours ago

        That’s weird. I saw no such signs and had my phone out when I voted. It was in my hand plain as day when I walked from the ballot table to the booth.

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          11 hours ago

          Guess it varies from places to places… Which is always weird from a Canadian point of view considering federal elections are handled by the federal government so the norms are the same cross country.

          • @Today@lemmy.world
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            Ah. Yep. Phones are okay in Illinois. Phones are not okay in Texas. Those are the only two I checked.