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Snapchat is Fighting for Your Right to Take Selfies While Voting

CIVIC ENTHUSIASM

The company is protesting New Hampshire’s ban on "ballot selfies."

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Many have fought and died for the right to vote. Now Snapchat is fighting for your right to post a selfie while you’re voting.

“Ballot selfies are the latest in a long historical tradition of voters sharing their civic enthusiasm—and their votes—with their social networks,” the company wrote in an

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