Snopes Debunker - Is it OK To Take a Selfie With Your Ballot?

Is it OK To Take a Selfie With Your Ballot? ​ Before the rise of smartphones, the best way to announce to your friends and family that you had voted in an election was to tell them. But now that we have powerful internet-connected cameras at our fingertips, it’s more efficient to simply take a picture of yourself at the polls and post it to social media. In 2016, astute readers asked us if it was even legal to take photos of your ballot and Snopes founder David Mikkelson posted a fact check with specific information about which states didn’t, at the time, allow ballot photos. It’s been four years since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and while some states’ laws have changed, our readers’ desire to know if they can show off their ballots online has not. Snopes reporter Nur Ibrahim has updated 2016’s fact check with up-to-date information.  Read More Fact Checks Does This Photo Show Biden Posing Inappropriately with a Young Girl? Ashley Biden introduced her father at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. ❌ Miscaptioned Are These Nazi/American Flags Real? Neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups have a long history in the United States. ✅ Mostly True Did Daylight Saving Official Apologize for Making 2020 Longer? It turns out that no one likes 2020. ✅ Correct Attribution Are Windmill Turbine Blades Buried in Wyoming Landfill? At least 90% of a wind turbine is recyclable. ✅ True No, Hunter Biden Did Not Die From a Drug Overdose The false and distasteful rumor emerged from some dark corners of the internet in October 2020. ❌ False View Latest Fact Checks A Chilling Collection of Supernatural Stories Of course you don't believe in ghosts. But maybe you'd better fact-check that one story just in case... Visit the Collection  News Postal Worker Charged in Ballot Dumpster Incident, No Evidence of Political Motivation The ballots, en route to the residents of a single Kentucky zip code, were discovered unopened in a dumpster in mid-October 2020. Read More What’s the Difference Between a Cemetery and a Graveyard? Regardless of etymology or the history of burial grounds, ultimately, everyone dies. Read More Gun-Wielding St. Louis Couple Seek Prosecutor’s Removal A grand jury indicted Mark McCloskey, 63, and Patricia McCloskey, 61, on charges of unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with evidence. Read More QAnon’s ‘Save the Children’ Morphs into Popular Slogan The “Save the Children” effort emerged earlier this year as a splinter movement from QAnon, the dangerous group of internet conspiracy theorists. Read More Fitting Finale: Dodgers Win Title, Lose Turner to COVID-19 The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their first World Series title since 1988 in a manner no one could have imagined prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Read More

View Latest News Staff Pick ​ Exclusive: Russian Echoes Abound in Still-Active ‘Pennsylvania for Trump’ Facebook Group From 2016 A likely Russian administrative account had been active in the swing state group since well before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and only disappeared in October 2020 after we contacted Facebook with questions. Read More