Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA?

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• mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You mean taking pictures of people at polling locations?

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is halloween after all 👻👻👻👻👻🎃🎃🎃🎃

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well whatayaknow, Republicans are right

  Dead people really are voting

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sharia law is getting out of hand smh

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t it generally illegal to film or take photos in a voting location? And now people are further spreading it? Considering how divided this country has gotten, an argument can be made this is dangerous for those in the picture.

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  • Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure a good argument can be made. Being at a polling place doesn’t say who you’re voting for. I don’t see the danger.

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    • frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “I saw a photo of you being civically responsible!”

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  • Arcka@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Filming / photography in public is a First Amendment protected activity.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In public (and only when one would have a reasonable assumption of privacy, or whatever). Poll places don’t follow those same rules. If they can prevent people from wearing campaign-related tshirts within X feet of a polling place, then they can prevent people from taking photos. Which they do.

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      First ammendment doesn’t protect you from a baseball bat.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are they trying to prove that they can vote without being identified or something?

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• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  spooky month 👻

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• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The fact that there are no other images of this is odd, but assuming it is at an early voting location today, perhaps they are pretending to be “ghost voters”:

  As that drama played out, readers asked Snopes to look into social media posts and media stories reporting that multiple counties in the U.S. had more registered voters than voting-eligible residents. One such story was published by the Washington Timesand headlined, “Judicial Watch finds 1.8 million ‘ghost voters’ in 29 states, warns of ‘dirty elections.’”

  Judicial Watch, a right wing legal activist organization, claimed to have discovered in an October 2020 studythat “353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens.”

  Source: www.snopes.com/…/ghost-voters-in-29-states/

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  • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some further important context, the ‘comparison’ Judicial Watch made to come to this conclusion was based on, on one side, ‘the most recent voter registration data for counties’ and on the other, a math-based population estimate collected over the course of five years.

    It’s kind of like claiming that Johnny, age eighteen, is a different person from Johnny, age thirteen, based on height difference.

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    • BluesF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or perhaps accusing someone of short changing you based purely on the sound the coins make on the counter.

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a mystery! Get Scooby and the gang! They’ll unmask those ghost.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000006391

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Fuck’s the Klan gonna do about it? Retaliate by wearing white in other locations?

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    • phantomc137@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      merica

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not my picture; I only crossposted it. I also only did so because it was apparently being deleted and I wanted it not to be lost (sorry if it’s a loose fit for the community because of that).

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  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weird, your linked post seems to be gone now

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This time I had the foresight to take screenshots:

      Image

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    • pezmaker@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if the original post is an elaborate hoax with a link that never worked in the first place or if something is legit happening. Why would there be lines to vote already? Maybe I’m naive and early voting is that difficult in Georgia that people are lining up now. I don’t know, my ballot gets mailed to me by default and I can just walk up and drop it off any time up until polls close on election day. This feels like it’s a post to sow discord but 🤷‍♂️

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If I had to guess it’s to protect their identity so that they can vote without being harassed. But I will fully admit I only looked at the picture and didn’t click the link or anything.

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• FossilVerbrechen@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess it is to protect the personality. Maybe MAGA maybe some fearful Democrats or GREENS :O

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