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🗳️ Will Your Vote Be Public or Kept Secret? Things to Know About Ballot Privacy
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Plus, more live updates of today's election. Nov 05, 2024 Kamala Harris’s campaign last week la
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Plus, more live updates of today's election. Nov 05, 2024 [election 2024 live blog]( [Live Updates from Election Day 2024]( Kamala Harris’s campaign last week launched an ad with a fairly specific target audience: the wives of Trump voters who are secretly pro-Harris. The spot shows a woman entering a polling place with her MAGA-coded husband (wearing an American flag baseball cap) only to cast a vote for Harris in the privacy of the booth, after some knowing eye contact with the woman across from her. True! But in Texas, the idea that our votes are secret—a cornerstone of free and fair elections—was called into question this past summer. So are our ballots protected? First, it should be noted that tracking down a ballot via records request and working to identify its likely voter based on a constellation of information is not easy. Even if someone wanted to see how you voted, and if they happened to be knowledgeable enough to find your ballot, it would take a lot of work. But second, if the county officials do their jobs and heed the Secretary of State’s guidance, any potentially identifiable information would be redacted from a ballot obtained through an open records request. Our election coverage continues with live updates like this on the biggest races, election analysis, and results to watch in Texas. [FOLLOW ALONG]( SHARE: [REDDIT]( | [X]( | [FACEBOOK](     [Plus, Follow Our News & Politics Reporters for Further Analysis]( Each member of our politics team is keeping an eye on a different facet of today's election. [Meet and learn more]( about what the team is watching here. [FOLLOW US](   [Subscribe]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( [Twitter]( [YouTube]( You are receiving this message because you signed up for our newsletters. Want more? Check out [our other newsletters](.   P.O. Box 1569, Austin, TX 78767 [View Online]( | [Manage Preferences](
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