No, people cannot see who you voted for after an election

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1. if you’re worried about it, just google it and you’ll see nothing but confirmation your vote is secret, and how and why that is. vote for who you think will best lead the nation.

2. No, they can’t. But you can pull an individual’s political donation history. You can also scrape their public social media or see which primary someone participated in if a state holds separate elections for each party. There are a variety of ways to triangulate should someone want to.

   >https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/

   >https://www.ft.com/content/4018b10d-210a-4d15-961c-4aadfcac70a4

   >https://scrape.do/blog/how-can-web-scraping-help-political-campaigns/

   >https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election

3. In a way, you can tell anyone that voted for Trump based solely on the metric of leaving campaign signs up since the 2016 election. Name another election where that happened. Cult.

4. The fact that this question is coming up in my opinion is that some people are scared if he wins, he is going to find some way to access who votes Democrat and go after those people.

   That’s where we are at in America.

5. The GOP wants to frighten women into believing their husbands will find out if they vote for Kamala.

6. FYI your voting record (like if you voted) is public, but who you voted for is private and protected by law.

7. The fact that one side of the political spectrum has to fear for their safety says it all.

   MAGAPublicans are terrorists.

   Terrorism:

   – The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

8. The ballots are entirely separate from the voter information. There is physically and informationally no way to connect ballots to the voter who cast them.
   Voter information such as party affiliation and address are public. But the votes cannot be connected.

9. If maga had it their way, it’d be like Russian “elections” with a guy with an assault rifle peaking over your shoulder.

10. It’s really easy to find the MAGAs

11. But they can see that you are a registered democrat or republican. I can easily see everyone
    In my neighborhood

12. Similarities between Trump and Hitler:

    1. Both scapegoat minorities;
    Hitler it was Roma, Jews and black people, Trump it’s immigrants and Muslims.

    2. Both expressed strong ideas of nationalism; Hitler promoted returning to Germany’s former “greatness”, Trump has MAGA slogan.

    3. Hitler coined “Lügenpresse” (lying press) to discredit the media, Trump has “fake news” for any news that doesn’t favour him and also referred to it as “the enemy of the people”.

    4. Both capitalised on fear to consolidate power; Hitler had the Reichstag fire, Trump has bullshit election fraud claims.

    5. Hitler aligned his views with Christian imagery to dupe stupid fucks, Trump does the same.

    6. Hitler centralised power and replaced government workers with those that are loyal to him rather than the country, so the when ‘democratic’ elections were held, it was highly rigged; Trump is to do the same according to Project 2025. Along with this, Trump has said “I want generals like the ones Hitler had (loyal to him and not the state)” and well as “if you vote for me you’ll never have to vote again”.

    On top of this, Trump was found to be libel of sexual abuse by a jury of his peers, failed to appeal twice and the judge residing over the case specified twice that he is, by both common and state law definitions, a rapist. Further to this, he regularly hung out with Epstein and also hung out with P Diddy.

    He’s also been convicted 34 times of federal crime; keeping in mind felons can’t vote, but apparently they can run for office that people are voting for.

    He’s also been colluding with Putin for years, even giving Russia valuable equipment like respirators during the covid pandemic when parts of the country had a shortage. Along with this, he collided with his sidekick Musk, a US defence contractor whom also has been in regular contact with Putin for 2 years, even doing him and Jinping a favour by not deploying Starlink over Taiwan.

13. They keep running this ad that says they can’t tell how you voted, but your family and friends will be able to see if you voted. It runs on repeat here.

    Veiled warning?

14. And if they could? I voted for Kamala you fascist idiot, come and get it!

15. This headline is misleading. Primary election votes are partisan in Texas (and elsewhere) and those voting records are public. However, for any general election,there is not party affiliation chosen by the voter and so those votes are anonymous and cannot be check after an election. But that only applies to general elections.

16. Any american who despises democracy so much should move to North Korea, Eritrea, Russia or Turkmenistan, I bet they’d LOVE it there

17. Terrorism and misogyny….and those chuds whine whenever compared to the Taliban, Boko Haram and other zealots

18. The GOP sure wishes they could. If Trump wins, your vote, if you even get one, will be visible and it will be used against you one way or another if it isn’t a vote for him. 

19. Be aware that if you live in a state where you take your printed ballot from a machine to load into a counting machine, your ballot may be visible to anyone that might be watching while making that walk.
    If you are worried about others seeing your choice, just be discreet. Hold the ballot with the printed portion pointed away from eyes if possible, or simply hold it by the portion you want to be hidden.

    As always, vote your conscience and be safe!

20. Damn sure see who you donated to though and as a democrat and federal employee that scares the shit out of me.

21. Women stuck in GOP households: your family will not know if you vote for Kamala. They can’t scare you into submission.

22. I know we are not vibing with judging books by their covers but it’s not hard to connect the dots a lot of the time.

23. “No hubby, I totally voted Trump. No clue how Kamala won Texas!”

24. Although the reasons to conceal that info, at this moment in history a part of me wants it different. Because anyone who votes Trump 2024 is a full traitor.

25. TLDR public record will show if someone actually showed up to vote. Think of it as attendance. Your actual ballot and choices are private, and oftentimes anonymous.

26. Except the asshole standing over his wife shoulder while she made her selections.. trying to look at mine..

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