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I'm strongly opposed to voting machines, but if we're going to be stuck with them, enabling "straight ticket" as an easy selection shouldn't be an option. I eve
by delecti 8y ago
I'm strongly opposed to voting machines, but if we're going to be stuck with them, enabling "straight ticket" as an easy selection shouldn't be an option. I even vote "straight ticket", so I understand why a person might, but we should aspire to it not being necessary, and shouldn't enable it.
I'd even go as far as to say that it would make sense to not even list the party on ballots. If the only information a person has about a candidate is their name and the (D) or (R) next to it, they might just not be informed about that particular race. I'm less sure of that opinion though, and wouldn't defend it as ardently.
- jshevek 8y agoI would agree that democracy works better the more informed the voters are, however the very idea of taking steps to discourage 'voting while ignorant' is highly controversial in the US. We have a history of disenfranchising voters which is at the back of most people minds when the topic comes up.
- delecti 8y agoIf someone would choose to not vote in a particular race on their ballot because they didn't know which candidate was the (D) and which was the (R) that's hardly disenfranchisement. But it's also not the main point I was trying to argue.