Take the selfie out of the voting booth

With a presidential election looming in the US, Richard L Hasen believes the selfie poses a threat to the secret ballot and could lead to the re-emergence of vote buying

What could be more patriotic in our narcissistic social-media age than posting a picture of yourself on Facebook with your marked ballot for president? Show off your support for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, senator Bernie Sanders, or former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Last week a federal court in New Hampshire struck down that state’s ban on ballot selfies as a violation of the First Amendment right of free-speech expression.