Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania cast their ballots in New York. Photo / AP
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania cast their ballots in New York. Photo / AP
Voting is a personal and private act, even if you're the spouse of a major party candidate. Donald Trump and his wife Melania voted side-by-side at a Manhattan school in New York City.
Cameras caught the Republican candidate as he peeked at his wife while she was castingher ballot. The shot quickly went viral.
Comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted the photo with the caption "When you're worried that your wife copied off of Michelle again," referring to Melania's convention address that seemingly lifted parts from Michelle Obama's speech.
Actor David Schneider added a thought bubble that read "He's looking. Dammit! I want to vote for Hillary."
Alex Howard, a senior analyst at the Sunlight Foundation - a non-partisan organisation that holds the government accountable, included a link to the New York election laws. The underline segment reads:
The operating of the ballot scanner by the voter while voting or the use of a privacy booth or ballot marking device for marking a ballot shall be secret and obscured from all other persons except as provided by this chapter in cases of voting by assisted voters or in cases of children under the age of sixteen accompanying their voting parents or guardians.
In this case, it appears Trump violated his wife's privacy. Donald's son Eric Trump did the same thing to his wife Lara Yunaska as they voted at the 53rd Street Library in New York City.
"Like father, like son," CNN reporter Nathan McDermott tweeted.
