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Voted yesterday - straight Democratic - here's why: (Original Post) El Mimbreno Nov 2018 OP
Me too... refused to vote for unopposed Republican Judges (TX) JCMach1 Nov 2018 #1
Only one unopposed repub El Mimbreno Nov 2018 #9
Made a similar decision @ 1976 rurallib Nov 2018 #2
Thats AWESOME... sdfernando Nov 2018 #3
What do you do with non-partisan races? Coventina Nov 2018 #4
Research El Mimbreno Nov 2018 #10
Google doesn't always help. n/t Coventina Nov 2018 #11
Voting question matt819 Nov 2018 #5
Vote against every Republican PJMcK Nov 2018 #6
Only 8 states allow straight-ticket voting frazzled Nov 2018 #7
I voted straight democratic in Maryland. nt Baltimike Nov 2018 #12
Do you mean you could use a single ballot mark frazzled Nov 2018 #13
The latter, I'm afraid, lol. nt Baltimike Nov 2018 #14
I always vote Democratic and write in different names for unopposed judges. Demsrule86 Nov 2018 #8

JCMach1

(27,544 posts)
1. Me too... refused to vote for unopposed Republican Judges (TX)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 11:37 AM
Nov 2018

Last time they had Libertarian opponents... no opposition this time.

El Mimbreno

(777 posts)
9. Only one unopposed repub
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 06:41 PM
Nov 2018

A state school position of some sort. Didn't vote for him. One R judge up for retention, political hack, voted no.

rurallib

(62,344 posts)
2. Made a similar decision @ 1976
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 11:46 AM
Nov 2018

knew them turds were bad back then and getting worse by the day.
Trump is simply the outcome of this festering since Nixon.

sdfernando

(4,896 posts)
3. Thats AWESOME...
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 11:50 AM
Nov 2018

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

(26,852 posts)
4. What do you do with non-partisan races?
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 11:55 AM
Nov 2018

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.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
5. Voting question
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:11 PM
Nov 2018

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

(21,916 posts)
6. Vote against every Republican
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:25 PM
Nov 2018

Max Boot nails it:

Vote for Democrats on Tuesday. For every office. Regardless of who they are. And I say that as a former Republican. Some Republicans in suburban districts may claim they aren’t for Trump. Don’t believe them. Whatever their private qualms, no Republicans have consistently held Trump to account. They are too scared that doing so will hurt their chances of reelection. If you’re as sick and tired as I am of being sick and tired about what’s going on, vote against all Republicans. Every single one. That’s the only message they will understand.


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)
7. Only 8 states allow straight-ticket voting
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:26 PM
Nov 2018
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.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
13. Do you mean you could use a single ballot mark
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 12:27 AM
Nov 2018

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.

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