Can my husband find out who I am voting for in the Presidential Election?"

Olivia Dreizen Howell, the founder of a website to help women get back on their feet after a breakup or divorce, tweeted last week, “We’ve been getting this question a lot,” so she followed up with some facts. As the Washington Post confirmed with experts, the answer is simple: “No; it will be public record that you voted, but not how you filled out your ballot.”

The GOP ticket is led by a sexual predator who a jury found “‘raped’ [journalist E. Jean Carroll] as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” the judge in the case wrote. His running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, has called for a national abortion ban, wrote the forward to a book that denounced contraception for making pregnancy “seem like an optional and not natural result of having sex,” and repeatedly called women who haven’t given birth “sociopathic” and “childless cat ladies.”

Meanwhile, the Democratic ticket is led by a woman who chose “Freedom” by Beyoncé as her campaign song, and has dispensed with the mealy-mouthed language about abortion rights to declare she stands for “the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body.” Her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, her running mate, has decried “weird” MAGA Republicans of the “he-man woman haters’ club.”

  • Admiral Patrick
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    2263 months ago

    The big question touching a nerve this election: “Can my husband find out who I am voting for?”

    That’s one of those questions I feel like, if you find yourself asking it, you should probably get out of that marriage. (I know easier said than done)

    • Honestly. As a guy who is lefty (and bi, but mostly dates women). The dating scene has been way easier these past 5 or so years.

      The political male-female divide means that right wing women, and left wing men, are far more “in demand” among heterosexual people. (queer people are majoritarily leftwing so it matters less there.)

          • osaerisxero
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            73 months ago

            You’re thinking about it the wrong way. We should be thanking NZ for pulling them all to one central location.

            • He’s not actually living in NZ. He just bought citizenship which allowed him to buy the native and protected lands he wanted to buy (only citizens are allowed to buy them).

              • osaerisxero
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                143 months ago

                Yes, but that was so he could install his bunker there like all the other paranoid billionaires, yes?

                • knightly the Sneptaur
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                  123 months ago

                  Hows the concrete industry in NZ? I imagine that sealing all those bunkers will be a priority once the rich assholes have locked themselves inside.

                  • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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                    63 months ago

                    Concrete for the doors, kerosene down the air vents. Don’t even bother lighting it, just seal the vents with concrete or silicon afterwards.

        • d00phy
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          53 months ago

          I certainly can celebrate that. I’m stuck reading his stupid book “Zero to One” for a work extracurricular. Can’t wait to discuss it with the EVP who chose it.

            • d00phy
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              73 months ago

              Not really. It’s not mandatory. I generally love where I work, so I signed up for this. Didn’t know this would be book 1. If the reading selection continues at this quality level p, I’ll happily drop out and go back to reading all the Bosch universe books!

    • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      273 months ago

      That’s one of those questions I feel like, if you find yourself asking it, you should probably get out of that marriage. (I know easier said than done)

      Why do you think Republicans want to get rid of no fault divorce?