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04-27-2016, 02:02 AM
Snapchat wants 'ballot selfies' to be legal
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Snapchat is taking new steps to make sure its users' selfies are legal in more places.*
The company filed court paperwork last week as part of a legal case seeking to defend voters' right to take and share "ballot selfies" on election day.
SEE ALSO: 3 major problems with using decade-old voting machines in **vember (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/old-voting-machines-problems/)
Snapchat's filing is just the latest development in more than a year and a half of legal wrangling (http://aclu-nh.org/rideout-et-al-v-state-of-new-hampshire/) over whether New Hampshire voters have the right to share photos they take at the ballot box on social media.*
In September of 2014, the state of New Hampshire passed a law (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/lxiii/659/659-35.htm)*banning voters from sharing photos of marked ballots on social media, with those who violated the law subject to fines up to $1,000. Soon after, the ACLU challenged the law on behalf of three New Hampshire voters, saying it violated their First Amendment right to free speech. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/snapchat-ballot-selfies/)
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Snapchat is taking new steps to make sure its users' selfies are legal in more places.*
The company filed court paperwork last week as part of a legal case seeking to defend voters' right to take and share "ballot selfies" on election day.
SEE ALSO: 3 major problems with using decade-old voting machines in **vember (http://mashable.com/2016/04/05/old-voting-machines-problems/)
Snapchat's filing is just the latest development in more than a year and a half of legal wrangling (http://aclu-nh.org/rideout-et-al-v-state-of-new-hampshire/) over whether New Hampshire voters have the right to share photos they take at the ballot box on social media.*
In September of 2014, the state of New Hampshire passed a law (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/lxiii/659/659-35.htm)*banning voters from sharing photos of marked ballots on social media, with those who violated the law subject to fines up to $1,000. Soon after, the ACLU challenged the law on behalf of three New Hampshire voters, saying it violated their First Amendment right to free speech. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/snapchat-ballot-selfies/)
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