On March 9, U.S. District Court Judge Louise Wood Flanagan, a Bush Jr. appointee, upheld North Carolina’s ban on a voter taking a picture of that voter’s voted ballot. Hogarth v Bell, e.d., 5:24cv-481. The ruling says the ban is necessary to prevent a voter from being bribed. This is an unconvincing reason. The law does not prevent a voter from taking a photo (allegedly to show the briber) but then requesting a new ballot, and voting differently on the new, replacement ballot, and casting that replacement ballot. Here is the Opinion.