Question

You go to vote and simply mark an "x" at the top of your ballot beside the name of the political party of your choice, voting for all your party's candidates for all offices. Which type of voting method did you use? long ballot short ballot split ticket straight ticket

Answer 1

In this case you would be using a "straight ticket", since you automatically are choosing all of the candidates within a certain political party, instead of voting for individual candidates from different parties. 

Answer 2

If you go to vote and simply mark an "x" at the top of your ballot beside the name of the political party of your choice, you are using the straight ticket voting method.

The straight ticket voting method, also called straight-party voting, means that you can simply check democrat, republican, etc.. and you will vote for all of your party's candidates for office without having to go through and select each person individually. A total of nine states offer this voting method.