Interesting and not trivial free association about what is going on.
The butterfly effect of the butterfly ballot.
The adversarial two- (or more) party system is meant to be evenly balanced
and meant to give each candidate the opportunity to thwart their opponents.
For a variety of reasons,
Reflection on Peter's comment
> One of my colleagues refers to this as Shrodinger's election...
plus this from a news article on butterfly ballots in MA
> The problem in Massachusetts was the chad -- the piece of paper that
is
> supposed to separate completely from a hole-punch ballot. When it
