Some might suggest that being threatened by your employer to vote a certain way is not an infringement of civil liberty. You are, after all, free to vote as you wish, just as you are free seek employment elsewhere, more specifically in a firm whose chief executive shares your political views. (Try asking that question in your interview).
Anyway, it's a secret ballot and, theoretically at least, you can't be fired for refusing to tell your employer how you voted even if he were to draw the conclusion that you must not have voted as 'instructed' since if you had you'd have freely fessed up.
Of course, you could always lie. After all, integrity and scruples are clearly not in high demand in a company in which you are blackmailed on the way to the ballot box, while your employer cashes your vote at his bank.
Some might also suggest that these employers are simply exercising their first amendment rights to free speech.
That said, I find this deeply troubling.
Maybe Fox News will do one of its customary week-long indignant exposés on it?
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