Show Me State Says Keep Your Ballots Secret
Written by slanch   
Friday, 17 April 2009 11:57

tjoshieSt. Louis Blues rookie TJ Oshie has made many fans this season, but one fan may have landed in trouble thanks to a cell-phone photo.

During the mayoral elections for O'Fallon, Missouri, a voter put Oshie's name on the ballot as a write-in candidate. A waste of a vote perhaps, but not illegal.

Unfortunately, the voter then took a photo of the ballot and posted it on the internet, which, since it's illegal to share the contents of a completed ballot, means the voter is in trouble.

"[The voter] violated the law, and I’m going to prosecute," elections director Rich A. Chrismer told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "They may have thought the photo was cute, but it was very serious."

"You can’t violate something as sacred as the ballot," Chrismer said. “People won’t trust going to a polling place if they think somebody is walking around with a camera." If convicted the voter could face a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

[National Post]

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