(Thanks for posting this Susan. Part move below the fold) This morning the Election Law Committee heard testimony on HB143: An Act Allowing Straight Ticket Voting. This bill is sponsored by Representatives Notter, Peterson, LeBrun, and Rice – all Republicans. The NH legislature abolished straight ticket voting in 2007, after the Democrats took control of [...]
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Straight-Ticket Voting: Some Numbers
For the 2006 election the Secretary of State’s office published on the web, for the first time, the number of straight-ticket votes cast in each party. The straight ticket option was eliminated since then: in the future, voters will have to explicitly mark a choice for each office.Here are two widely-held beliefs about straight ticket [...]
Straight Ticket Voting and its Absence in 2008
Interesting article in the UL this morning on the possible effects of the absence of straight ticket voting (one of the first things the Dem majority did when swept into power was to do away with it). While NHGOP Chair Fergus Cullen blames straight ticket for the demise of Jeb Bradley (how’s that for the [...]
Peter Burling: State Over Party
My state senator, Peter Burling, is sponsoring a bill to eliminate the very thing that may have helped his party capture so many seats in the House and Senate, and may have even played a factor in the two US congressional races: straight ticket voting. “I’ve been trying to get rid of it for 10 [...]
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