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.”

  • @Today
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    522 days ago

    They don’t let you use your phone.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 days 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”

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        21 days 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
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          521 days 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 days 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
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              221 days ago

              Ah. Yep. Phones are okay in Illinois. Phones are not okay in Texas. Those are the only two I checked.

      • bitwolf
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        821 days ago

        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.