Posted on 09/25/2020 6:41:42 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
A federal judge on Friday ordered Texas officials to allow straight-ticket voting for the Nov. 3 election, ruling that a state law ending the practice would endanger voters by causing longer lines at polling places during the pandemic.
The ruling, coming only 18 days before early voting was set to begin, will cause problems for election officials who must reprogram voting machine software and reconfigure ballots, U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo acknowledged in her ruling.
“The substantial injury to (voters) is outweighed by the inconvenience,” the Laredo judge wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Appeal all the way up. Legislatures set election law, not judges. Bush v Gore.
Georgia did away with straight ticket voting over 20 years ago.
Another Obama judge.
It means the Democrats are too stupid to actually vote for somebody, so this allows them to not think and vote straight party. Only the Republicans need to think about whom they vote for.
So Texas Republicans ended straight party ticket voting.
Straight party ticket voting hurt Reps in 2018 as people voted straight DEM in the big cities. With the law change, DEM voters in the big cities have to vote every office individually. Rep ended straight party ticket voting because they think DEM voters will just vote the top of the tickets and be too lazy to vote down ballot offices.
The Judge undid the REP law ending straight party ticket voting because she said it would take too long for voters to be in the voting booth with a pandemic underway.
Judge Marmelade is spreading the election prep mighty thin.
What’s the big deal? You can vote straight ticket or you can split your ticket. Am I missing something? NOT allowing straight ticket voting seems wrong.
Mexican born... in Laredo. Now a Federal Judge... running America.
Obama Appointee (I’m shocked!)
It means an Obama judge decided Texans can just vote all GOP or all Dems instead of having to vote on a race-by-race basis. Her excuse is “covid.” I think this should be immediately appealed.
Shrug, of course, being born in Nuevo Laredo -could- mean she was sired by an American. Depends on the part of town.
While I might not agree with the judge having the power to overturn law based on convenience, I like straight ticket voting, can’t think on any Dem since Zell Miller that I could possible support.
“...NOT allowing straight ticket voting seems wrong...”
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What state are you in?
In 2018 BETO voters voted straight party tickets. Reps lost many down ballot offices.
Some voters will skip voting all offices if they have to work too hard.
I just grew up with TX straight ticket voting and always used it, it’s so easy and fast. I hate having to manually pick through each page to find the R’s, when 1 button will do it.
I was sad to see it go, hopefully it’ll be back for good now.
I spoke with someone at the county GOP headquarters who told me this law was passed because dems would register homeless people, drive them to the polls, give them smokes or beer/malt liquor and tell them to vote straight ticket “d”. Judge, obviously, didn’t want that voter stream disrupted.
Only 6 states allow straight ticket/party voting.
Michigan is one of them.
(Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and South Carolina)
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Straight-ticket voting (also called straight-party voting)
allows voters to choose a party’s entire slate of candidates
with just a single ballot mark.
Voters make one mark or selection on the ballot
in order to vote for every candidate of that party
for each partisan office on the ballot.
PA. Have always had option for straight ticket. You can choose R, all offices light up on R line. From there you can uncheck any R’s you don’t like and submit.
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