We first encountered this warning about straight ticket voting a few months before the 2008 presidential election, and it reappeared in July 2012 in anticipation of that year's presidential election.

How popular has straight ticket voting become in Alabama? During the 2022 midterm election, two-thirds of voters used the straight ticket option, up from 52.3% of ballots in 2012.

But straight-ticket voting could benefit Democrats in Jefferson County, where any tight county races could be determined by the number of Democratic straight-ticket votes.

Can I vote straight ticket in Michigan? In the Nov. 5 general election, both straight-ticket voting — in which voters can through a single action support all candidates from one of the two major ...

Those voting in Michigan's Nov. 5 presidential election can split their tickets and vote for a mix of Democratic, Republican or third-party candidates. That's different from the Feb. 27 and Aug. 6 ...

Straight-ticket voting will end before the 2020 elections, bringing Texas into line with the vast majority of states. Republicans — who lost numerous down-ballot officials, ...

Straight-ticket voting was actually common in most states before the 1960s. Since then, however, it has dwindled to just eight states: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania ...

Straight-ticket voting is often not lazy voting. It is totally committed voting in which the voter believes that voting for any candidate of the other party is morally wrong. He views the ...

For Utah Latter-day Saints, the admonition against straight-ticket voting means something far different than it did just a few years ago. Utah lawmakers removed the straight-party voting option ...

Given the narrow margin of victory Trump had in Michigan in 2016 — 10,700 votes — and the 154,000 votes Biden beat Trump by in 2020, straight-ticket voting could be a deciding factor in ...

Straight ticket voting is hardly the best way to keep lines short. Another argument — a controversial one — was advanced in Michigan in 2018 in favor of preserving straight ticket voting.