Question: Why was straight-ticket voting a concern with respect to judicial selection in Texas? When voters use straight-ticket voting, judges with years of experience can be voted out of office based on nothing but party affiliation. Straight-ticket voting can lead to many races on the ballot being left blank due to no candidate of that party running for the judicial position. Straight-ticket voting requires a lot of political knowledge on the part of the voter and discourages people from showing up to vote. Straight-ticket voting only applies to representative positions such as Texas House and Texas Senate, but most voters do not realize this and forget to vote for the judicial positions on the ballot.