Richard asked- Could lone mark balloting be disenfranchising more voters than is generally realized? ---- 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.
