By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Iowa is one of a declining number of states that offer straight-ticket voting. Voters here still can check one box that applies their vote to all the candidates from one party, instead of individually voting for each candidate in each position on the ballot. Republican Rep. Peter Cownie [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – More than 40 percent of Linn County voters took a shortcut on the way to casting their ballots in the Nov. 6 general election. According to the Board of Supervisors’ official canvass Nov. 14, 43 percent of the 118,711 people who voted in Linn County voted a straight party ticket. In Johnson [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — For some Iowans, voting can be as quick and simple as filling in one little oval. For people who want to vote a straight-ticket — vote for all the Democrats or all the Republicans on the ballot — they can simply fill in one oval near the top of their ballot [...]
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