How would anyone know? Ballots are always secret, so any trouble you might get in would not be about the way you voted, but the way your coworkers felt when you talked about it. Easy solution: keep your mouth shut. (This is the cultural norm.)
Political donations are a matter of public record, so it is possible one could get in trouble over that: Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich famously resigned after controversy around his donation to a campaign opposing gay marriage. But this is a rare situation, since the CEO of a nonprofit is kind of a political figure; it's not something an ordinary employee would worry about.
In the 36 states where voter rolls are also public record, some batshit-paranoid executive could theoretically find out which employees didn't vote and give them a hard time about it, but this would be completely unheard-of and possibly illegal. Many US citizens don't bother to vote; nobody cares.
> How would anyone know? Ballots are always secret
This is tangential, but in Sweden, voting was not secret until 2019:
Long-standing Swedish election policy of always displaying the ballot papers for voters to select in public, making it impossible for many voters to vote secretly, has been criticised as undemocratic and is arguably in blatant contravention of Protocol 1, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights [..] In 2014 a German citizen, Christian Dworeck, reported this lack of secrecy in Swedish voting to the European Commission and from 2019 ballot papers are selected behind a screen.
I've worked in the SF Bay Area my whole life and no one has ever asked me how I voted at work. Also even if someone asked me, there's no way for anyone to know how I voted, so I could just lie!
No absolutely not. If you’re ever in that position that would be beyond toxic.
It’s private information and you could always lie, but again that’s an insane situation.
1. Why wouldn’t you vote? I don’t get it. You can vote and leave out particular elections. Or you could write in your own name. Educate yourself and make the best informed decision you can.
2. Voting status is not a protected class. If they want to fire you over it, they can. This seems absurd though.
I’d suggest you find another job if you think you’d be “into trouble” by voting a certain way or not voting.
Perhaps just keep your personal opinions to yourself if you think you’ll be ostracized… but I would not want to work in such a place.
Seriously? You’re a legal adult, not a kid. No one’s going to scold you like a child for how you vote, just like they don’t tell you what to wear or where to go. Voting is about your own opinions—it’s your right. So, why even ask if you’ll get in trouble for making your own choice? Get real and take control of your decisions
Political donations are a matter of public record, so it is possible one could get in trouble over that: Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich famously resigned after controversy around his donation to a campaign opposing gay marriage. But this is a rare situation, since the CEO of a nonprofit is kind of a political figure; it's not something an ordinary employee would worry about.
In the 36 states where voter rolls are also public record, some batshit-paranoid executive could theoretically find out which employees didn't vote and give them a hard time about it, but this would be completely unheard-of and possibly illegal. Many US citizens don't bother to vote; nobody cares.