The New York State and New York City laws prohibiting voters from taking selfies with their completed ballots do not infringe on the selfie takers’ First Amendment rights and are crucial for maintaining the integrity of elections, a federal judge ruled in a suit challenging the law.
New York’s interest in the integrity of its elections is “paramount,” said U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York Thursday, and while the vote buying that was endemic to American elections in the 19th century is now rare, a “handful” of vote-buying schemes have been uncovered in recent years, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is currently prosecuting the perpetrators of a vote-buying scheme.
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