Straight-ticket voting

The drift of the Democratic Party away from its roots in the Reconstruction era's Redeemers led to the collapse of straight-ticket voting in the Solid South, as southern voters began to vote for Dixiecrats (Conservative southern Democrats) at the local level while backing Republicans at the national level.

The success of the Southern strategy has resulted in Republicans dominating at all levels in the American South, and increasing political polarization has created a large ideological distance between the two parties.

[3] Indiana abolished the straight-ticket vote for at-large elections in 2016, but retains it for all other partisan races.

The Michigan Legislature passed and Governor Rick Snyder signed SB 13 on January 5, 2015, which repeals and abolishes straight-ticket voting in the state.

[7][8] In 2018, Michigan voters passed a constitutional amendment ballot proposal that restored straight-ticket voting, which went around the prohibition on appropriated money bills.

In 2012, the secretary of state decided not to put the option on ballots, with the legislature attempting to reinstate it that year but the effort failed.

[3] Under the former system, North Carolina made separate selections for the President/Vice President and the straight-party option.

[3] On June 1, 2017, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 25, which eliminates the straight-ticket voting option in Texas for all races beginning in 2020.

In 2015, however, straight-ticket voting was eliminated as an option on ballots through an Act of the State Legislature signed by Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, SB 249.

[24] Wisconsin offered its straight-ticket option in 2011, which was effective for the November 2024 elections, and it remains available for UOCAVA voters.

[3] The Seneca Nation of Indians, which operates under a republican form of government on reservations within the bounds of the state of New York, offers a straight-ticket voting option.