Misinformation Given About Straight Party Voting Leads to Lost Votes in TX

Trouble in Texas: Misinformation Given About Straight Party Voting Leads to Lost Votes
Votes De-selected by Voters Following Incorrect Instructions From Officials...

Misinformation being circulated by election officials concerning straight-party voting in Texas (and elsewhere) is beginning to be a big problem, and is leading to voters deselecting their preferred Presidential candidate, and possibly flipping their own votes to another candidate...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6542

According to party officials, a voter contacted the county Democratic Party after examining information Williamson County Elections Administrator Rick Barron had circulated via e-mail concerning a straight ticket vote.

"A voter can vote straight party and have all of their votes count, the e-mail states. They can also vote straight party and then select every Democrat again, if they so chose."

According to campaign officials, when an east Williamson County voter voted using electronic machines, she selected a straight party ticket, effectively selecting each Democrat on the ballot. She then went back and selected a Democrat’s name again. By doing so, it unchecked that selection, according to a release from one of the campaigns.

I think if the person sending this is caught they should be prosecuted for interfering with a persons vote.

In Texas, you select straight ticket and DON'T select Pres
BUT
BUT
BUT
In NC, you select straight ticket and you must separately vote for Pres.

The best place to get correct information about Straight ticket voting for your state is
over at Voters Unite.

http://www.votersunite.org/info/straight_party.asp

people need to check Voters Unite for clear and well researched information on
Straight ticket voting for each state.

VU called one state and the SOS didn't even know the rules and had to get back to them.

http://www.votersunite.org/info/straight_party.asp

Clicking straight party should select or deselect ALL D's but should prompt OK / CANCEL first.

Clicking any individual candidate should NOT do anything to any OTHER candidate unless it is an opponent in the same race in which case it should deselect the previously selected opponent. What should then happen is that the "straight party" button should "tri-state" to checked but grayed out indicating that it was originally checked but some individual names have been overrriden.

The precedent for this U/I behavior should be how file properties work in windows when a group of files is selected with different properties like read only, system, hidden, etc in varying states.

If as described, clicking an individual after selecting straight party resets all other voters for straight party this is a bug that ought to be fixed.