[Peace] vote tomorrow?

[Robert Naiman]

Illinois got rid of "straight ticket" voting, in the sense of one
place you could mark on the ballot that would vote Democratic for you
in all races, in 1995.

If someone who wasn't following particular races were to just say
"I'll just vote for all the Democrats," the main downside of that
would be if they ignored the referenda. The way the ballot is set up,
you have the partisan races, then the judicial elections, then the
referenda last. So, the big danger would be that there person would
vote in all the races where they could vote for a Democrat, then get
to the nonpartisan judicial races and think "I don't know any of these
people" and stop voting. The key thing is to get everyone to go down
to the end of the ballot, skipping races they are not interested in
voting in if necessary, to get to the referenda.

On 11/6/06, sparenti at uiuc.edu <sparenti at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Help!--me, and a bunch of other people who have called me up, want to know--
> if someone votes straight Democratic tomorrow, what would that damage?
>
> I know there is the importance of the people running for Green proposals;
> but, other than that---?
> susan, and other puzzled worried people
> _______________________________________________

>


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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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