Taiwan's opposition-backed plan to put several referendum questions on a single ballot is drawing pushback from election officials, who say it would make counting messier and voting less free.

• KMT and TPP lawmakers want referendum law changed so voters get one ballot covering multiple questions instead of one ballot per question.
• The Central Election Commission strongly opposes it, and Yunlin County's election office has come out against it too.
• Officials say voters could no longer refuse a question they do not want to vote on, which amounts to forcing a ballot on them.
• If a voter spoils one question on the sheet, it is unclear whether the rest of their votes die with it, opening fights over what counts as valid.
• Counting would slow down rather than speed up, since ballots could not be sorted by question first, and a lawsuit over any single question would freeze the whole batch of ballots for months.

Outlook: Yunlin says it will follow whatever the Central Election Commission decides, so the fight now moves to the legislature and the commission.