Voters who may be backing a Republican in a Democratic enclave or a Democrat in a Republican neighborhood worry about the privacy of their secret ballot, according to a study by Brigham Young University.

Voters who believe they're in the minority in their polling area had 30 percent less confidence their ballot wouldn't be seen by neighbors now that most polls have tossed the curtained booths in favor of touch-screen voting machines with a shorter privacy wall.

"People who vote differently than their neighbors are concerned about privacy — especially if they think the machine lets other people see how they vote," says BYU political scientist Chris Karpowitz, who co-wrote the study with Quin Monson and Kelly Patterson.

"And it's true of both parties wherever they are in the minority. Voters who are in line with the neighborhood norm, on the other hand, are far less concerned about issues of privacy."

The study, to be published in the forthcoming issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, was co-written by two BYU graduates: Steven Snell and Lindsay Nielson.

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Huntsman daughters steal the show • Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman may be struggling in his presidential campaign but his three eldest daughters seem to be rising stars.

Mary Anne, Abby and Liddy posted a Web video last week that they shot themselves poking fun of the now-famous spot featuring Herman Cain's chief of staff taking a drag on a cigarette while pitching Cain's candidacy. The Huntsman daughters opted to blow bubbles instead.

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Asked outside of a campaign stop whether he was afraid his daughters would become more famous than him, Huntsman responded: "Definitely."

"I told them, 'lower your level of visibility and fame and at least allow me a little room at the top,'" Huntsman joked.

Their YouTube video, for the record, has garnered more than 260,000 hits, twice as many viewers as the top video on Huntsman's official YouTube channel.

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Chaffetz office lodging • If you peer closely at the satellite imagery Google Maps provides for the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C., you'll notice many members of Congress tagged to where their offices are located. And you'll find a bed noting the spot for Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

Chaffetz's fellow House members are identified with a symbol that means "civic building," according to a legend of Google Maps' symbols.

Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who is well known for sleeping on a cot in his office to avoid paying for rent, is listed with the symbol for "lodging."

Roll Call first reported that someone appears to be poking fun of Chaffetz by adding the bed to his Capitol office location.

Google Maps, for the record, doesn't have a "cot" symbol.

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