When I posted a picture of my ballot on primary election day on Slog and Twitter—showing that I had voted for John Roderick, contra the SECB's endorsement of Jon Grant (a post that swung the primary election for Roderick, right?) and encouraging others to fill out their ballots and get them in the mail—lots of people on Twitter let me know that I was breaking the law. (People on Slog could give a shit about the law—Sloggers were smoking pot and gay marrying long before it was legal.) A week later, though, New Hampshire's anti-ballot-selfie law was struck down by a US District Court.

The ruling by Judge Paul Barbadoro is a victory for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of three voters who posted images of their completed ballots on social media sites after the Sept. 9 primary.... In striking down the law, Barbadoro ruled that the state had failed to demonstrate any compelling interest in preventing people from showing others how they voted via social media.

And this morning, the New York Times has a big piece on the battle over ballot selfies. The argument against ballot selfies: vote-buying and voter intimidation:

What ended the flagrant vote-buying and intimidation of the 19th century in America, Mr. Gardner and political historians note, was the advent of truly secret ballots, leaving would-be vote buyers and political bullies unable to verify if their instructions had been carried out. But with the ubiquity of cellphone cameras, the argument goes, that hard-won privacy and security for voters is in danger. Vote-buyers, or a boss demanding that you support a candidate, could demand a photograph of the completed ballot to prove how you voted...

“The problem with this law is that it was an outright ban on an innocent form of communication,” Mr. Bissonnette of the A.C.L.U. said. “It didn’t ban displays involved in vote buying or intimidation. It banned all displays, including ones that carried political messages. The best way to combat vote buying and coercion is to investigate and prosecute cases of vote buying and coercion."

Also: Banning ballot selfies posted to social media doesn't prevent people from taking and texting pictures of their ballots to "employers, union bosses and others."