I hope the governor signs this bill. It’s something I support fully.
Rep. Patrice Arent’s bill to ban straight-ticket voting — the state’s long-held practice of being able to check a single box on a ballot to vote for all of the candidates of one political party
If the governor signs, in Novembers election Utah Voters will actually have to go down the ballot and read the candidates and vote for the one they want.
I’d like it to go one step further. Just have the names with no party affiliation next to them. If you don’t know who the Dem or the Rep or Lib or Ind is, then they might just leave it blank, or they will just take a wild guess as to who they ~THINK~ they want.
Imagine if they actually had to know the candidates and what their platform is.
You can still go down the entire ballot, find the name that has your pary affiliation and vote for it. YOU just have to do the work.
Here in Utah a lot of people just click that and then done. They ignore everything else on the ballot. This actuall makes it so they have to scroll down and see everything on the ballot.
Do you even understand what is being discussed? This would result in more choices, not less. Straight line ballots don’t allow you to pick anyone running outside of a single political party.
You mean party affiliation on a ballot like I want?
You should know who your voting for. Plain and simple. Just because it has a party affiliation next to their name doesn’t mean you know if they have all your views, or views you would find contrary.
Nope I’m good with that democrats consistently enact polices that I like and republicans don’t. And since I have no head for decent political analysis I go with what works.
