On March 23, the Iowa Senate passed HF 516 by 26-21. The bill makes many election law changes, and one of the changes is that the bill eliminates the straight-ticket device. The bill already passed the House once, but it must get another vote in the House because the Senate made some changes unrelated to the device.
Are there any statistics on how often voters use the straight ticket option? As a resident of Iowa, I’m curious what the practical effect of this will be.
I believe that there were 2016 election statistics on that on the SoS website.