text: That may be the case with the local chapter where you live. I'm in Fairbanks; the Tanana Valley chapter has run a booth for many years at the fair where they conduct a straw poll. We've caught them doing exactly what I described numerous times spanning over a decade.
  
  I mentioned elsewhere that I've been on a hunt this summer for old images of Alaska which have fallen out of copyright for various reasons or were never under copyright (read: works of the federal government). One shows an Alaska Railroad box car with a banner announcing "Alaska's New Voting Machines" from 1962. This came about after Warren Taylor championed ridding Alaska of its blanket primary, or decades before anyone ever heard of Jim Zawacki or other Republican sockpuppets. Or back when Diebold as a manufacturer wasn't quite known for specialties such as voting machines.  Anyway, Taylor's objective was to allow people to basically cast a straight party vote without having to give it any thought.  Sound familiar?