[EM] Re: Advantages of CR style ballots

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Richard asked-

Could lone mark balloting be disenfranchising more voters than is generally
realized?
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D- Lone mark (plurality) obviously causes a whole lot of lesser of 2 or more 
evils type voting (along with a whole lot of delusional *mandate* type 
thinking in the brains of the resulting plurality winners -- especially long 
term incumbents in legislative bodies).

My local government is now using opscan voting devices.  The voter puts 
his/her ballot into the device which immediately scans the ballot and spits 
out the ballot if there is overvoting for any office or issue (with a notice 
if there is any undervoting --- such as the zillion judicial positions in my 
local area).

Before the switch about 2 to 4 percent of the voters were overvoting for one 
or more offices -- especially for the local 9 member at large city council.