[lepton]

The day before the election, all candidates with any budget at all will run advertisements emphasizing their ballot positions – ''Vote for John Smith on line 72.''

Won't that number change in each of the 80 districts? Advertising each would be tough.

[Congressman Billybob]

As I noted before, the advertising would have to be district-specific. In some rural districts there might me a newspaper that served only one District. In suburban newspapers it would be a multi-purpose add: "If you are in District 23 the line to vote is 72. If you are in District 24 the line to vote is 5."

In the City of Los Angeles, the typesetting and proof-reading would be a nightmare. The ad might have to list 20 different Districts. In every case, because I know from experience that the average voter doesn't have a clue what District they are in, the ad would end with this statement in very large type: "You may take this ad into the voting booth with you."

The answer to your question shows why I assert in the article that the only candidates who will matter are those who can get volunteers to hand to each voter as he/she is walking in to vote, an instruction card on the precise line that voter in that district needs to find to vote for that candidate.

Congressman Billybob