When the majority shifts from one group to another, an agency's budget may gush or go dry, abruptly reducing its efficiency. W ith old budget-setting rules, the sequence of decisions is crucial because early decisions may use so much money that not enough is leftover for the departments funded last. After a few poor years, most voters will think it is a worthless agency wasting what little money it gets. Most will blame the party they identify with the agency, not the party that reduced its budget. This voting table is in fact a bar chart with a column for each agency.
Reps move their chips to cause or counter budget changes and voting ends when budgets are stable.
So voting is easy as reps move chips and see the budgets rising and falling. This is bad for decision making. It is not an accurate vote. It doesn't tell the public or the vote-counting rule how you rate all the other items. It rewards exaggeration.