In Brazil, votes are cast in person on a Sunday, and cellphones are forbidden from the voting booth, so that no hard evidence of your individual vote can be produced. This is so that criminals can’t force you to vote for their preferred candidate. Since you can’t prove it, they can’t require proof. Photographing yourself voting is an electoral crime and people get fined for it.
Other countries allow voters to photograph their votes and ballots.
How about yours?
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It didn’t use to be forbidden here, but we have elections this Sunday, and it will be forbidden to photograph how you voted.
Cellphones are not prohibited, and I dunno about taking a picture of yourself, specially since you’re in a dark room and no-one would really know. Also taking a picture would not necessarily ensure you did vote for the guy you said, since ballots are put into envelopes that are later sealed and deposited in a ballot box right outside the voting room. So you can take a pic of yourself picking up ballot A and end up putting ballot B in the envelope.
It’s forbidden but a lot of people still do it.
I never had a problem with that, i don’t know if it’s forbbiden but you can go and take pictures while voting
Up to now, at least at the national level, you went to a schoolroom where all the ballots where distributed on benches and you chose what you wanted. It was at closed doors, and you are alone. I’ve taken photographs.
An anecdote: about 30 years ago I was designated “presidente de mesa”, the authority at one the voting “booths”.
An illiterate person comes to vote ( the electoral roll stated that he was illiterate). First problem: a “fiscal de mesa” (representative of a party) objected and didn’t want to allow the person to vote. Using my authority I said he votes because he is on the roll.
I enter the classroom with the man to explain to him which ballot belongs to which party. When I try to leave the classroom so he can choose, he stops me and asks me: “what do I vote?”
“Whoever you want!”
“Please tell me!”
And I won’t tell you what I told him.