Title: Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket? | Snopes.com
Headings: Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket?
Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket?
Voters who select a 'straight ticket' may not end up voting at all in some races.
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Content: [Collected via e-mail, September 2008]
Just Passing this on…Make sure you do the same!!!!!!!! For those who normally vote “Straight Democratic”, please pay close attention!!!!! I was informed this weekend by a group of Obama volunteers that when voting for the presidential candidate this November, you have to make sure you punch Barack’s name first, then proceed to punch “Straight Democratic” or else the vote for the president won’t count. I’m not sure if any of you are aware of this, but we know they won’t tell us this at the polls. Please make sure you inform others. The item quoted above warns voters that selecting the straight ticket option may not result in their casting a ballot for their party’s presidential candidate because presidential selections have to be undertaken separately from the straight ticket voting process. Voting processes vary from region to region, and as far as we know this warning applies only to North Carolina, where straight ticket voting is available for all races except for presidential electors; voters in that state (regardless of party) therefore need to specifically select a presidential candidate in addition to voting a straight ticket. As the Charlotte Observer cautioned readers back in 2008: Imagine you are a first time voter with a desire to vote straight party — to vote for all the candidates of a particular party.