Why not have a "short" ballot and a "long" ballot?

[kentuck]

On some ballots in the last election, there were as many as 19 Amendments, I have read. If every voter read all those Amendments, it is easy to see why the lines were 6 hours long. In some states, the ballot proposals bave become a political strategy for getting our "targeted" voters.

But, they can have the impact of intimidating less sophisticated voters. And there are those that say if they do not know what they are voting for, they should not vote at all. However, under those conditions, we would have a voting clique of about 5-10%.

So why not have two ballots? On one ballot, people that do not want to wait in long lines could get the "short" ballot and it would only have the names for teh individuals running for office with no Amendments. For example, President, Senate, Congress, and State House.

On the other ballot, the "long" ballot, people could choose to vote on every individual and every issue. Would this be an impossible solution to the long lines? Any other ideas?