vote a straight ticket

[vote a straight ticket] {v. phr.}

To not differentiate one's ballot according to individual names and posts, but to vote for all candidates for all positions of the same party.

* /"I never have time.to study the ballot in detail," Marie said, "and so I tend to vote a straight Republican ticket."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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