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The maximum prize is $2,500 on a 50 straight ticket.

Our price is five dollars a vote or ten dollars for a straight ticket.

Grant votes the straight ticket, and that's all that's required.

Even winning the Met auditions, as she did that year, isn't a straight ticket to stardom.

He advocated for the return of the straight ticket device, which was removed in 1972 in Maine, to ensure party loyalty.

The coonies took another sniff, decided to vote the straight ticket, and off they all went downstream, in full cry.

I happen to vote a straight ticket, and . . . Well, that's mighty nice of you to say so.

You can't vote the straight ticket."

If a voter desired to vote a straight ticket he tore off the full page which contained the names of all the candidates of his party.

While straight ticket voting has declined among the general voting population, it is still prevalent in those who are strong Republicans and strong Democrats.

According to Paul Allen Beck and colleagues, "the stronger an individual's party identification was, the more likely he or she was to vote a straight ticket."

"For the first time in my life, I went and pulled a straight ticket," said Mrs. Hahn about her votes for Republican candidates.

Straight ticket: Betting the numbers marked as a single wager is called betting a straight ticket.

Voters in Michigan may vote a straight ticket, a split ticket (voting for individual candidates in individual offices), or a mixed-ticket vote.

In politics, curiously, the words form a compound adjective meaning "loyal"; a yellow-dog Democrat is a voter who cannot be swayed from voting the straight ticket, "even if the candidate is a yellow dog."

Indeed, in the United States, the tendency of both strong and weak partisans to vote a straight ticket in down-ballot races is even stronger than it is for presidential and congressional races.

Since that time, straight-ticket voting has declined in the United States among the general voting population; however, strong partisans, that is strong party identifiers, have remained straight ticket voters.

Not only should there be no "Straight ticket" option, but it should be promoted as acceptable (even wise) practice that if you don't have an (informed) opinion about which candidate is better, then don't vote for either.

While we have indeed ended up with divided government for 16 of the last 20 years, exit polls tell us that in Presidential election years somewhere between 70 percent and 80 percent of voters usually vote straight tickets for all of one party's candidates for Federal office.

But if, instead of 13 one-seat races, the election had been decided by a statewide bloc vote, then even if both parties had offered lists of only 13 candidates apiece, Republicans could have swept all 13 races - assuming that enough supporters voted a straight ticket.

Since the days when Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago used to pride himself on getting in and out of the voting machine in a few seconds -that was all the time it took to pull the lever for the entire Democratic ticket - there has been a gradual disappearance of the straight ticket.

Analysts say the habit of voting for persons over parties is likely to be intensified even further by Brazil's new, totally computerized voting system, which uses an electronic keyboard like that of a telephone or automatic teller machine and is set up in such a way that it is impossible to vote a straight ticket.

Until that time, if you are called on to say something as a secondary speaker to a large audience you can say as little as a dozen words, speaking in praise of "good roads and good weather," complimenting the principal speaker, or the chairman, or the arrangements committee, or simply announcing your intention of voting the straight ticket.