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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVoted yesterday - straight Democratic - here's why:
Quite simply, as far as I'm concerned, any candidate who declares as republican is also tacitly declaring support for trump and his agenda of greed and hate.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)Last time they had Libertarian opponents... no opposition this time.
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)A state school position of some sort. Didn't vote for him. One R judge up for retention, political hack, voted no.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)knew them turds were bad back then and getting worse by the day.
Trump is simply the outcome of this festering since Nixon.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)just remember to double check your ballots and verify that no disgusting republicans were slipped in there. Heard there were some shenanigans going on with straight voting in TX.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)I'm curious because we have a lot on our ballot.
School Boards, our Judges are non-partisan, Water board (no, seriously that's what it's called), Corporation Commission, City Council, Mine Inspector, up to about half of our ballot is filled with non-partisan races. Very few of the candidates declare what their political party is. And, it isn't info that is available via Google, either.
I'm wondering what others do in this situation.
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)I googled the judge up for retention and discovered he was a gop hack.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)I've always wondered about this.
My town has paper ballots. Of course I vote straight D, but I've always had the sneaking suspicion that somehow my D votes would not be counted across all candidates. I guess the same would apply for electronic, though I'm guessing that when you click on the straight D, you see the D votes down ballot. (Not addressing the issue of vote changing on electronic machines.)
So my question is whether there have been indications that straight ticket voting on paper ballots somehow is not applied to candidates below the top item on the ballot.
In any case, I fill in all the boxes very carefully for all D candidates. And, as another poster commented, I do not vote R even in an uncontested race.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Max Boot nails it:
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/sick-and-tired-of-trump-heres-what-to-do/2018/10/31/72d9021e-dd26-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html?utm_term=.135eb49bb31a
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Alabama
Pennsylvania
Indiana*
South Carolina
Kentucky
Texas**
Oklahoma
Utah
*Senate bill 61 in 2016 abolished straight ticket voting for at-large races only
**The Texas legislature eliminated STV in May 2017, but the law does not go into effect until 2020.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/straight-ticket-voting.aspx#1
I've never voted for anything but Democrats my entire voting life (that would be since 1972). But I've never lived in a state where you could vote "straight ticket." Gotta tick 'em off one-by-one-by-one.
Baltimike
(4,146 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)to choose every Democratic candidate at once? (That is what straight ticket means.).
Or do you mean you voted individually for every Democrat? Of course, you can do that in any state, and most of us do just that.
Baltimike
(4,146 posts)Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)Good job!