Sean Hannity May Have Broken Law While Tweeting Picture Of Ballot

[kpete]

Did Sean Hannity break the law while voting on Tuesday?

That's what Think Progress wondered after the Fox News host tweeted a picture of his ballot. (No surprise -- he voted the straight Conservative Party ticket.)

Here's Hannity's ballot:



But, as Think Progress noted, Hannity tweeted the picture with his completed vote -- and that may have violated New York state law, which says that anyone who "Shows his ballot after it is prepared for voting, to any person so as to reveal the contents, or solicits a voter to show the same," could be charged with a misdemeanor. Photographing a completed ballot is prohibited in many other states as well.

Only time will tell if the police eventually show up at Hannity's door.

UPDATE: Hannity later discussed the incident on his radio show.

“I learned a big civics lesson today," he said. "... I took a picture of my vote and I tweeted it out and then I heard it's not allowed. So I had to -- I deleted it -- whoops! I didn't know, I really didn't, honestly.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/sean-hannity-voting-ballot-broken-law_n_2082929.html
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/11/06/1144261/the-thinkprogress-election-day-live-blog/#lbu-1352221501

[Renew Deal]

1. He voted Conservative Party

That's what that third line is in NY. He did not vote republican.

[Agschmid]

2. Interesting right?

I would have thought he would have voted for the republicans, but apparently not.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Ignorance is no excuse. Good thing too, because

if it were, Hannity could be excused on just about anything you can conceive of.