KY House Bill 157 proposes to end straight-ticket voting. Call the LRC hotline and ask to leave a message for your elected officials, to support this bill at 1-800-372-7181.

Summary and actions: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB157.htm
Full text: http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB157/bill.pdf

The bill summary reads:


What this does is remove the box at the top of the ballots in KY to remove the straight ticket option.

I am spreading the word to support this bill because straight ticket voting dilutes YOUR vote. Many offices in Kentucky don't have all the parties running. Other offices are non-partisan. A straight ticket vote means that a lot of voters aren't casting a vote in those races.
This is especially important in Kentucky where some of our urban Republicans are a little left-leaning and some of our rural Democrats are well to the right of east-coast Republicans. Politics in this state is a funny game and really down to the individual candidates, not the parties.

Big picture, straight party voting pushes us towards a parliamentary system where the parties decide who wins and loses based on a vote for the party rather than a vote for the candidate.