Voting a straight dem ticket ???

[stellanoir]

Has anyone else heard some rumblings about how voting a straight democratic ticket in some states may not be inclusive of a vote for Obama?

I saw that somewhere but didn't want to believe it so I don't have a source. I only had seen it one time and had not ever voted a straight ticket.

This morn I've seen several threads wherein people were reporting happily that they had voted straight dem and that got me wondering what up with the straight ticket option?

Ya never know with these nefarious ever so hackable EVM's.

This may help. . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021723276

[onehandle]

1. Hit the straight vote here in PA. Obama lit up along with the rest of the Ds.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021726294

[stellanoir]

7. What. . .you didn't hear bells & whistles or get a stuffed animal. . .? *damned* We're doomed !!!

Kidding of course.

The observable fact that something lights up on a screen doesn't necessarily insure transfer to the vote tallying software. Yet we'll certainly hope it is. Or that Anonymous is all over this which is another rumor I heard.

That's the big ruse around the optical scanners. They create a paper trail but the tallying is transferred altogether elsewhere to highly hackable aggregators. Paper ballots are never scrutinized if the margin of victory is greater than 3-5% depending on the individual state voting regulations.

Glad you voted though. Hope more than expected will.

[madashelltoo]

2. Would not vote for a Republican if they were my brother or sister.

[stellanoir]

9. There are third party folks that are sometimes worthy of votes.

I live in a deeply blue state so sometimes they're worth a throw away vote or two.

We had a singular "Cool Moose Party" candidate who ran for governor and lieutenant gov. repeatedly who was highly entertaining.

His only platform was that he'd abolish the office when he ran for the latter on the premise that the position didn't have any function whatsoever.

His hair was down to his butt and he was a public high school teacher.

[bowens43]

3. In North Carolina the vote for President is seperate.

The poll workers are very good about point this out. When I early voted they walked up and down line making sure that everyone is a ware of this. This goes for both republican and democratic straight ticket.

[AsahinaKimi]

4. My ticket was so straight

it started to lean to the left...

[jberryhill]

5. That is true in NC

[stellanoir]

11. I hope upon hope that the poll workers make it clear that it is so.

[Terra Alta]

14. In my very red county in NC, the poll worker made it clear

that we had to vote for President separately from a straight ticket.

[Tracer]

8. The other night, I heard Howard Fineman say ...

... that "no one" votes straight ticket anymore!

I was thinking "what is he smoking?"

I always vote a straight Democratic ticket and I'm damn sure that I'm not the only one.

[Puzzledtraveller]

10. Had the same concern

Voted straight ticket on paper ballot and yes on one constitutional amendment, as I left I was thinking if I should have selected the pres and then wondered if I had done that would it reject my vote.

[codjh9]

12. I always vote a straight Dem ticket, BUT in NM now straight tickets aren't an option. So I

had to vote for each person individually.

[HopeHoops]

13. Yes, but not by hitting the "straight ticket" button. I pick each one individually.

While it's not the case today, in PA you can cross-file under multiple parties. Single button straight ticket of whatever party will award the vote to a cross-filed candidate (assuming they're filed under that ticket). It's particularly common with our school board and the county commissioners.