Summary Phones have been restricted in vote booths.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazilians snap selfies at the beach, at soccer matches, at the gym, in maternity wards and even inside the dens of drug-dealing gangs.But at least one place in Brazil is off-limits to the selfie: the voting booth during Sunday s elections.
Under Brazilian law, it s illegal to take filming devices into voting booths. The main reason is to combat vote buying.
The nation s top electoral court cites reports of vote buying in Rio de Janeiro in recent years, where selfies shot inside voting booths were used as proof that paid-off voters had upheld their part of the deal.
Brazilians are among the globe s most voracious users of social media, and are among the top markets for Facebook and Twitter.
