[Revel]

Straight party voting in one action should not be legal. All and all I am afraid that this election is going to be nothing more than one giant fraud. It will not even reflect who the people wanted to vote for. There are more voter scam frauds out there than you could begin to count. And our system has been deliberately altered to allow it.

[Dog Gone]

Straight party voting in one action should not be legal.

You should see the ballot in my county. I'll bet there were at least 20 races where the Republican had NO opponent.

I didn't vote straight party ONLY because I like to enjoy the feeling of voting for each and every one of them. But it certainly would have saved me a bunch of time.

[GOPcapitalist]

We've been trying to get rid of straight ticket voting in Texas for a while. There was a bill to do it in the last session that I worked for heavily. Banning straight ticket voting is part of the GOP platform, but the bill was actually sponsored by a rural semi-conservative Democrat.

Unfortunately the radical wing of the 'rat party has a stranglehold on the Elections Committee in the House (hopefully that will change thanks to redistricting). It's been run with an iron fist for years by 'rat state rep. Debra Danburg. Danburg is often called the most liberal member of the Texas legislature, so you can guess exactly how far the bill got.

Add the committee membership in and you get an even better picture. There are 3 republicans and 6 or 7 'rats on the committee. Among the 'rats are one of the Dem caucus leaders who is constantly suing the state for "discrimination" via MALDEF et al whenever something doesn't go his way in the legislature. Another is a black democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Jr. named Terry Hodge from Dallas. She screams "intimidation" every time somebody proposes to do something that would get dead people off the voter roles. Another black democrat on the committee has offered pro bono legal representation to Nation of Islam thugs and Quannel X's neo-black panthers. That's what we're currently up against for electoral reform in Texas thanks to 'rat speaker Pete Laney.

Redistricting should give the GOP a majority in the legislature next year, though it may not be enough to defeat Laney for speaker, meaning the committee would stay the same. A couple of RINO state reps named Delwin Jones and Brian McCall, you see, are expected to vote for Laney no matter who has the majority.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Straight party voting in one action should not be legal.

For many years the Republican Party was against being able to do so. When we started to win elections that changed and now we are for it. I was there when my SREC Rep had the conversion and said " we got 14,000 straight party votes in Ft Bend this time and need to keep it."

I am sure that GOPc knows the lady. (initials are TR)