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Photoblogging Your Vote!
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Jacob Dobkin
Published Nov 2, 2004
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Jacob Dobkin
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The advent of cameraphones makes it pretty easy to sneak a picture of your ballot before you vote. In the old days, they prohibited this kind of thing at the polls, because there was the risk that you'd sell your vote and then use the photo as a kind of receipt to verify what you did. Of course, in New York, you could always click the levers one way, snap a picture, and then vote the other. Who else snapped a picture of their ballot? Put a link in the comments!
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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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