No More Straight Ticket Voting

West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant is reminding voters that they will no longer be able to check one box to vote party-line down the ballot. Lawmakers eliminated straight-ticket voting in the 2015 legislative session and voters will have to select every candidate individually if they want to vote for all candidates from one political party. Voters cast more than 126,400 straight-ticket ballots in the 2014 general election, and that was 27 percent of voters. In the 2014 general election, 53 percent of straight-ticket ballots were Republican and 42 percent went for Democrats. The rest opted for other parties.