Could you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?
PoliticsCould you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?Wisconsin says yes — and the issue is coming to New York.by Andrew ProkopJul 25, 2026, 11:45 AM UTCShareGiftA Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odds in New York on Monday, October 27, 2025. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via GettyAndrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. Intentionally voting while not being qualified to do so is a felony, per state law.
- ▪PoliticsCould you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?Wisconsin says yes — and the issue is coming to New York.by Andrew ProkopJul 25, 2026, 11:45 AM UTCShareGiftA Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odd
- ▪Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via GettyAndrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations.
- ▪Intentionally voting while not being qualified to do so is a felony, per state law.
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PoliticsCould you lose your right to vote if you bet on an election?Wisconsin says yes — and the issue is coming to New York.by Andrew ProkopJul 25, 2026, 11:45 AM UTCShareGiftA Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odds in New York on Monday, October 27, 2025. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via GettyAndrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington, DC, bureau.Could you accidentally gamble away your right to vote?If you live in Wisconsin, and you bought contracts on a prediction market like Kalshi about who would win elections there, you’ve done just that,…
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