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The big question touching a nerve this election: "Can my husband find out who I am voting for?" (www.salon.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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November may come down to a battle between controlling men and women who just want their freedom

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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How is this relevant to voting? Your vote is secret.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

You know that, and I know that! Apparently it’s not common knowledge, otherwise this post wouldn’t even exist.

Frankly it doesn’t matter that the vote is actually secret if the spouse is doubtful of that secrecy. An abused person may vote against their conscience on even the chance of repercussions.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Voting Records are publicly accessible. I know how each of neighbors are registered. I’m surrounded by Republicans.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That can only leak which closed primary the person chose to vote in. It could be that some of your neighbors vote tactically for the least-bad Republican in the primary and then vote for the Democrat in the general, especially since you're surrounded by Republicans and may not have a lot of Democrats running for office locally (making their primary uninteresting).

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I hope so