Think Twice Before Taking That #BallotSelfie
The #ballotselfie is illegal in most states.
— -- Does a vote even count if you can't show your Twitter followers your #ballotselfie? For voters in most of the country, it's going to have to.
Ballot selfies, popular photos of a voter posing with his or her filled ballot, are technically illegal in most of the country.
Only 6 states have no expressed laws prohibiting voters from photographing or recording their "own marked ballot," according to the Digital Media Law Project.
These states are Alabama, Delaware, North Dakota, Vermont, Tennessee and Wyoming.
If you do live in one of those states, go ahead and Instagram your democratic participation.
And if you don't, you can still take a selfie with that little sticker they give at the polls.
It beats getting charged with a felony.
