Texas lawmakers eliminated straight-ticket voting in the state starting with this year’s election. And it may have been aided by lawmakers’ decision to eliminate straight-ticket voting in the state, starting with this year’s election. Their victories came after the Legislature voted in 2017 to eliminate the straight-ticket voting option. A back-and-forth played out in the courts this year when a federal judge moved to reinstate straight-ticket voting, but a panel on the 5th U.S. Straight-ticket voting had long been a popular option among Texas voters; in 2018, two-thirds of Texas voters used it.