Registered Democrat Vote Straight Republican?

Straight ticket voting (also chosen straight party voting) allows voters to choose a party's entire slate of candidates with simply a single ballot marker. Voters brand one mark or selection on the ballot in order to vote for every candidate of that party for each partisan office on the ballot.

In 2022, a total of half-dozen states allow or offer directly-ticket voting (STV). With a few exceptions, the direct-ticket choice is available in all general elections, and applies to all partisan offices on the ticket, including federal, state and local races.

The states with STV are: Alabama, Indiana,* Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma and S Carolina.

*In 2016, SB 61 abolished STV for at-big races only.

Recent Legislative or Country Action

The number of states offer STV has been declining in popularity over time. Every year several bills are introduced to eliminate it, and occasionally bills are introduced to constitute it.

States Abolishing Straight Ticket Voting
State	Year Abolished	Details
Utah	2020	HB seventy
Pennsylvania	2019	SB 421; effective in 2020.
Iowa	2017	HB 516
Texas	2017	HB 25; effective in 2020.
Michigan	2016; reestablished in 2019	SB thirteen. In July 2016, a U.S. District Courtroom determination found the abolishment of STV disproportionately afflicted African-Americans and placed a preliminary injunction on enforcing the law for the 2016 election. In September 2018, the U.S. 6th Courtroom of Appeals said plaintiffs were unlikely to win their appeal and ordered the ban to accept effect. The plaintiffs appealed to the U.South. Supreme Court which denied a request to keep STV for the 2018 general election, and so it was not an selection for that election. Even so, voters passed Election Proposal three in November 2018 that amended the constitution allowing voters to cast a straight-ticket vote for all candidates of a item party when voting in a partisan general election, thus reestablishing STV in 2019.
Indiana	2016	SB 61; abolished for at-large races just.
West Virginia	2015	SB 249
Rhode Island	2014	HB 8072; effective 2015
North Carolina	2013	HB 589; constructive 2014
Wisconsin	2011	Effective for November 2012 elections, and STV remains bachelor for UOCAVA voters.
New Hampshire	2007
Missouri	2006
New United mexican states	2001	From 2002 to 2010, secretaries of land had administratively placed STV options on the election. In 2012, the secretary of state decided non to offer STV, noting that it had been repealed by the legislature. An attempt was made in the 2012 legislature to reinstate it, simply it failed. In 2018 the secretary of land attempted to reinstate STV, just a petition to prevent its utilise was approved by the land supreme court.
Illinois	1997
Southward Dakota	1996
Georgia	1994