“We have seen a couple recent decisions in the courts — one allowing selfies in the ballot booth and the polling location and one now prohibiting selfies back at the polling location, which reinstates Michigan law,” Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum said. “I understand the desire to take a picture of the historical significance of voting, but I also understand the history behind why it is not permitted.”

Human development and family studies senior Devon Gruskin doesn’t believe selfies should be allowed in voting booths, and said the act is a bad sign.

“Because people don’t have manners ... I think it is the age of ridiculousness,” she said.

Law professor Frank Ravitch said he is more perturbed over the laws preventing people from voting than the debate surrounding selfies.

“I’m less concerned about a ban on selfies in voter booths than I am about the laws all around the country that are being designed to keep people from being able to vote,” Ravitch said. “Those are much bigger concerns to me than the selfie issue.”

Ravitch said he is torn on the issue and sees benefits from both sides of the argument, but wants to know why the government wants to ban selfies and what their interest is in this issue.

“I can really understand the urge to do that (take selfies),” Ravitch said. “I can also see though how social media, in general, has sometimes had very deleterious effects on the democratic process.”

Ravitch said taking selfies could help bring voters in to vote. He said millennials thrive on social media and seeing other people voting and taking selfies could make them want to go out and vote.