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Oct. 28, 2024 - Lionel Nation

11:49

🚨Taking Ballot Selfies Are Illegal

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	If you are in the state of New York in particular, and you post on your Instagram or your TikTok or whatever it is, or show anybody, a ballot selfie, a picture of the ballot that you completed, Showing for whom you voted, it is against the law.
	It is a misdemeanor.
	You could be arrested.
	Has anybody been arrested?
	I don't know.
	That doesn't make it okay.
	That seems kind of stupid to me.
	Yeah, but that doesn't have anything to do with the law being in effect.
	This is the state that convicted Donald Trump of 34 counts of something that I still can't explain to you.
	Nobody can.
	Nobody understands it.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	You're telling me you can tell when the DA or law enforcement officials are going to act reasonably?
	New York Law 17.130 paren 10 Forbids a voter from taking a photo of or with their completed ballot.
	It's called a ballot selfie.
	And the purpose of the law, supposedly, long before cell phones and the like, What's to prevent voter coercion or intimidation or vote buying?
	You know, showing a completed ballot to prove an individual voted in a certain way.
	See?
	Give me my $10.
	Here's my vote.
	Okay, there it is.
	Here I am.
	Give me my $10 for the vote.
	Okay?
	Makes sense, sort of.
	But the law's still good today!
	Because nobody went back and said, wait a minute, people are taking pictures of everything!
	Their lunch, their feet, their hands, sunsets, expressions, they're sitting in the front seat of their car screaming and yelling.
	Again, Lionel's Law, the law always lags behind technology, and also the law lags behind insanity, collective insanity.
	So any person who shows his ballot after it's prepared for voting to a person as to reveal the content Or solicits a voter to do the same is guilty of a misdemeanor.
	Any person, this is the statute, who shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting to any person so as to reveal the contents or solicits a voter to show the same is guilty of a misdemeanor.
	At least 14 states.
	Make it illegal for ballot selfies according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedoms.
	And many New York lawmakers tried to change it.
	Tried.
	Senate Bill S. 661 was introduced in the 2023 and 2024 legislative session.
	The summary reads, quote, allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot or absentee ballot.
	While in a privacy booth and to share and disseminate such photographs on social media.
	Let's read this again.
	Can you see the loopholes?
	Allows voters to take photographs.
	Okay.
	I'm going to assume that the word photograph is the same as the digital photograph.
	For all I know.
	There is some ancient statute that means that a photograph means film.
	But let's just forget that.
	Expressio unis est exclusio ulterioris.
	The expression of one is the exclusion of another.
	Okay.
	This is the bill.
	It allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot.
	Or absentee ballot.
	Okay.
	Before we get...
	Of themselves and their ballot.
	Okay.
	Well, does that mean me and the ballot?
	Can I just take a picture of the ballot itself?
	It says and.
	Photographs of themselves and.
	So if I take a picture of myself, that's no big deal.
	If I were to take a picture of just the ballot, is that the same?
	Or absentee ballot.
	Here we go.
	While in a privacy booth.
	Now, what if I'm at home?
	What if I'm at home and I'm just on the kitchen table and I got this absentee?
	I'm not in an absentee privacy booth.
	It says, allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot or absentee ballot while in a privacy booth.
	Try it again.
	It allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot while in a privacy booth.
	Or absentee ballot, but you're not going to have the absentee ballot in the privacy booth.
	So that's probably separate, I guess.
	Or to share and disseminate such photographs on social media.
	So you can take it, but just don't share anybody, don't show anybody.
	Do you see what we're doing?
	Do you see how people like me come along and they just, we can't help this.
	Statutory construction is the expression of one is the exclusion of another.
	When you say you cannot drive 55, they don't mean 56. It means 55. 55 is the limit.
	Or you can drive 55. Or if they say you cannot do this at sundown.
	In the old days, burglary was the breaking, entering, whatever, at night, you know, and they have all these, well, they mean at night!
	So right now, it prevents you, very, very simply, this is very, very clear, as the law now, forget the Senate bill, no matter any person who shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting to any person so as to reveal the contents, Or solicits a voter to show the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
	So you, by taking a picture of your ballot, after it is prepared for voting, so the bottom line is simply this.
	What is it?
	And the question is, I don't know.
	And the number one answer for all legal questions is, it depends.
	It depends on whether anybody's going to be a jerk enough to say, hey, let's make a test case.
	What are you doing, Sarge?
	I don't know.
	Got a call from the supervisor of elections office.
	This girl here, she said, what do we say?
	What are you doing?
	Oh, nothing.
	Got the complaint ready?
	Yeah.
	Let's go pick her up.
	Let's make a test case of it.
	Let's see what happens.
	Let's see if the ACLU comes in.
	Let's do it.
	Do you think any of this is impossible?
	Do you think any of this is impossible?
	Do you think what I'm saying?
	Do you think there is nobody who would say, oh, come on, Alvin Bragg.
	It wouldn't do that.
	What?
	What?
	And especially if yours is Trump?
	They're not going to do this to a Kamala voter.
	They're going to do it to a Trump voter.
	You know it!
	So what I'm telling you is that until this is absolutely clarified, don't do it!
	Have a picture from you.
	No picture.
	Just say, guess who I'm voting for.
	Or have a blank ballot and ask.
	I mean, I would stay away from the ballots altogether.
	But this goes to show you one of these things that people don't know.
	Remember years ago, there was probably still statues good right now, is when you get a prescription from the druggist, in that little...
	A pill bottle with the name and the doctrine.
	That's required.
	You can't just take those out and put them in your pocket.
	I'll only take one.
	I'll just stick it in my pocket.
	No!
	It's an amphetamine or it's an Adderall or some people we got injected.
	But it's illegal.
	Yeah, but they're mine.
	It doesn't matter.
	No, but they're mine.
	I took it from the pill bottle.
	But you don't have the pill bottle.
	Boy, I don't want to carry the pill bottle around me.
	Well, you see?
	There was a statute years ago in the state of Florida that says you can have a firearm concealed without a permit at your home, in your car, or your place of business.
	But they never told you, well, how do I get from the home to the car?
	What if a cop stops me as I'm walking with my pistol in my briefcase and I don't have a concealed firearm permit but I'm going from the house over here?
	Well, you don't have a permit here.
	Yeah, but...
	But isn't it presumed?
	No.
	Well, when they wrote this, didn't they think?
	No.
	I mean, I don't even know what to...
	Read anything.
	Read the Constitution.
	Freedom of speech.
	What does that mean?
	I don't know.
	Freedom of the press.
	What does that mean?
	You figure it out.
	The Great First Amendment doesn't tell you anything.
	It takes years and years of litigation.
	So, anyway.
	The law, my friends.
	Be careful.
	Don't take pictures of your ballot.
	Just do yourself a favor.
	Until sanity is somehow re-invoked and re-vests with the American people, please don't do that.
	I don't know what to tell you.
	But the most important part of all this, I ask you to do this very, very simply.
	Please do me a favor.

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