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It's such an odd thing for someone who comes from a country where your vote has been constructed as such a private matter that often members of the same family don't disclose their vote to others. I also found this to be very odd growing up, but came to understand it through the heightened stakes of class and a class war that isn't that far back in history that has over time been co-opted by the bourge "civilizing" mission of neutrality and being apolitical in your everyday life.
The vote then has become something protected that was dangerous to reveal in the past, that has lived on to this day, turning this into this unwritten social norm. It isn't proper to ask anyone who they voted for, much the same way salaries can't be discussed.
As a result nobody here would put signs like this anywhere where they could be associated with them. I'm not at all sure if this is better in any way from the US lawn signs, but it sure is different.