Posted
1/04/2009 04:19:00 PM
by Douglas
As I noted before, I think that straight party
voting is absurd, so I'd welcome any effort to get
rid of it. Of course, someone is going to politicize it.
A San Antonio state senator wants to revive efforts to eliminate the straight-ticket voting option, even after Texans hit a 10-year high in the percentage of ballots sticking entirely with one party.
Republican Sen. Jeff Wentworth plans a second run at deleting the straight-ticket option during the legislative session that starts Jan. 13. His repeal proposal didn’t advance in 2007.
“Both political parties need to stop being quite so partisan,” Wentworth said in Sunday’s editions of the Austin American-Statesman.
How could anyone checking one box for the whole ballot be informed about all the candidates they're voting for? Get rid of it.