Fourth Circuit Will Hear “Ballot Selfie” Case on September 15

Posted on by July 30, 2026

The Fourth Circuit will hear Hogarth v Bell, 26-1328, on September 15, Tuesday, at 9:30 a.m.  This is the case over North Carolina’s ban on a voter photographing her or his voted ballot.  The lower court had upheld the ban.

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Fourth Circuit Will Hear “Ballot Selfie” Case on September 15 — 11 Comments

  2. What’s so bad about letting people photograph there ballots? Seems like a free speech issue to me.

  3. The ballot is state monopoly property. The voter has not owned the ballot for over a century. However, if the First Amendment is really enforceable and not mere aspiration, then the voter has the right to record all interactions with government officials including documents like the ballot. If not, then we live in a bipartisan fascist police state. Which it it?

  4. DFR

    POLICE STATE– via
    unequal ballot access laws and minority rule gerrymanders
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    pr
    appv
    totsop

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