Should Texas Do Away With Straight-Ticket Voting? [POLL]

Republican State Representative Ron Simmons of Carrollton has filed legislation that would do away with straight-ticket voting. Simmons wrote an opinion piece for the Texas Tribune where he argued that doing away with straight-ticket voting would help to produce more informed voters.

The answer to this is to join the 39 other states in the U.S. that have no straight-ticket voting. Voters will still be able to vote a straight-party ticket, but they’ll have to take a little extra time to go step by step down the ballot and select a candidate for each elected office. This will hopefully encourage voters to learn about the candidates in each race. But even if voters choose not to educate themselves, they can still vote along party lines or decide to not vote for any candidates in a particular race.

Are our liberty and way of life not important enough to really know whom we’re voting for to run our local and state governments? If people don’t make the effort, those who want to deceive, manipulate and abuse our representative form of government for their gain will be the only ones left standing in our halls of government.

What do you think? Would you like to do away with the option of straight-ticket voting? Let us know in today's KFYO Poll of the Day.