BBCVote buying
Well over half a million users of image-sharing social network Instagram posted images of themselves voting.
However, US law experts were quick to warn voters that in some states it is in fact illegal to take and share such images.
The legislation is designed, among other things, to prevent the possibility of vote buying.
"Display of a marked ballot to voters waiting in the queue can be used as a form of pressure to vote similarly, or to confuse voters who have difficulty reading English as to how to mark their own ballots," wrote Jeffrey Hermes from the Citizen Media Law Project.
"Similarly, those who might attempt to buy votes will generally require proof that the voter has in fact been bought, possibly through display of a marked ballot."
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