Sheller said the poll worker was assisting a voter with an electronic ballot and pressed the "straight Democrat ticket" option during the explanation.
Why the **** do "Straight ticket" buttons exist in the first place? If someone is too lazy, stupid or both to answer a half dozen or so multiple choice questions without a "pick C for everything" button then they don't deserve to vote.
In Australia, you can vote "above the line" (defaulting to a given party's preferences) because you can have dozens of options across multiple parties. I'm talking paper ballots more than a meter wide. If your chosen party's preferences are close enough to yours that you don't mind any minor discrepancies, it makes it easier to vote and easier to count the vote.
Why the **** do "Straight ticket" buttons exist in the first place? If someone is too lazy, stupid or both to answer a half dozen or so multiple choice questions without a "pick C for everything" button then they don't deserve to vote.
In Australia, you can vote "above the line" (defaulting to a given party's preferences) because you can have dozens of options across multiple parties. I'm talking paper ballots more than a meter wide. If your chosen party's preferences are close enough to yours that you don't mind any minor discrepancies, it makes it easier to vote and easier to count the vote.