this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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How is this relevant to voting? Your vote is secret.
You know that, and I know that! Apparently it’s not common knowledge, otherwise this post wouldn’t even exist.
Frankly it doesn’t matter that the vote is actually secret if the spouse is doubtful of that secrecy. An abused person may vote against their conscience on even the chance of repercussions.
Voting Records are publicly accessible. I know how each of neighbors are registered. I’m surrounded by Republicans.
That can only leak which closed primary the person chose to vote in. It could be that some of your neighbors vote tactically for the least-bad Republican in the primary and then vote for the Democrat in the general, especially since you're surrounded by Republicans and may not have a lot of Democrats running for office locally (making their primary uninteresting).
I hope so