Sharing A Ballot On Social Media
A measure before the Hawaii Legislature would allow voters to distribute or share an electronic or digital image of the voter’s own marked ballot.
Is there nothing that can’t be shared online?
, which has a hearing Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee at the Hawaii State Capitol, would allow聽a voter to distribute or share an electronic or digital image of the voter’s own marked ballot via social media or other means.
The measure recognizes that聽the prevalence of electronic mobile devices and social media applications and platforms “increases the opportunities for people to display their marked ballot.”
No one has yet testified in support or opposition to the measure.
But Chief Election聽Officer聽Scott Nago recommended language to ensure that聽taking “a ballot selfie” while at a polling place not be done in such a way as to try and influence the voting of others.
Nago notes that the law does not allow people to declare how they voted at the polling place or to聽remove聽a ballot聽from a polling place.
