A risk to voting a straight ticket?

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I happened across an article from three years ago about how voting a straight ticket makes is easier to rig an election and I'm wondering if it still is an issue.

"The failure of various aspects of our election system is a serious issue. A few examples of this are a single machine in Florida in 2000 counted negative 16,000 votes for Al Gore. The difference between Gore and Bush in that state was less than 1,000 votes. And in the 2008 primaries, over 1 million Indiana voters were purged from voter registration lists. These residents were mostly in minority-dominated communites, which tend to vote Democratic.

An email to supporters of the organization Black Box Voting, an organization devoted to fixing flaws in voting machines, informed them of votes being miscounted or not counted at all when the straight party option was chosen."

" HOW TO PROTECT THE COUNT against Straight Party Trap:

NEVER CHOOSE THE STRAIGHT PARTY VOTE OPTION, because it alerts the computer as to your party preference and allows software code to trigger whatever function the programmer has designed.
SEND THIS INFORMATION OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN, blog it, root n' toot it out there to get the word out.
ESPECIALLY GET THE WORD OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING STATES, which have straight party voting options:

Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin"

more..... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/10/626697/-Thinking-of-voting-a-straight-Democratic-ticket-Think-again



An old article, yes. But I'm wondering if it still applies today. On the safe side, I will never vote a straight ticket again. I will vote for each Democrat individually.