N.Y. Court Won’t Block Ballot Selfie Law

By Alexis Kramer, Bloomberg BNA

A federal district court has declined to block enforcement of a New York law that allegedly prohibits voters from posting selfies taken in polling places on social media.

Three New York residents had alleged in an Oct. 26 complaint against the New York State Board of Elections that the law, which bans voters from showing others their completed ballot, restricts their First Amendment rights.

“This action was commenced 13 days before the presidential election, even though the statute has been on the books longer than anyone has been alive,” Judge Peter Kevin Castel of the ...