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North Carolina had an option for voting "straight party" (using the term from an NC ballot) that did not include a vote for the President and Vice President of the United States, through the 2012 elections. A voter ID law enacted in 2013 abolished all straight-ticket voting in the state, and went into effect in 2014.
A ticket can also refer to a political group or political party. In this case, the candidates for a given party are said to be running on the party's ticket. "Straight party voting" (most common in some U.S. states) is voting for the entire party ticket, including every office for which the party has a candidate running. [1]
Election Q&A: I'm confused about the straight-ticket question on my ballot. If I vote for a party, can I also vote in individual races?
The party-column ballot listed all candidates of the party in a single column and allowed the voter to mark off the party box at the top, which encouraged straight-party voting and the coattails effect. Straight-party voting was the norm, and winners in presidential elections often had long coattails. They almost always began their term with ...
Just under 38% of Oklahoma voters who participated in the Nov. 5 election checked the option to vote straight party. Fewer Oklahomans used straight-party voting option in November election Skip to ...
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The term originated in the late 19th century. These voters would allegedly "vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for any Republican", [2] [3] or, "vote for a yellow dog if he ran on the Democratic ticket". [1] The term is now more generally applied to refer to any Democrat who will vote a straight party ticket under any
Kirt is asking the Legislature to end an option that allows voters to simply check a box to select all candidates of a specific political affiliation