Globe: Elimination of straight ticket voting could help write-in candidates

I would be surprised if anyone except Carthage businessman John Bartosh ends up as Jasper County presiding commissioner after the November election, but as an article in today's Joplin Globe notes, the recent law removing the straight ticket voting option could help write-in candidates such as Danny Hensley and Bill Rowland, both of whom are opposing Bartosh, the Republican candidate for the position:

One advantage for both Hensley and Rowland is that Missouri no longer has straight-ticket voting. Previously, as many as one-third of the votes cast during general elections in Jasper County were straight-ticket Republican ballots, meaning the voter made a single mark or punch that voted for every Republican candidate on the ballot.