I think this is the right answer. In the short form ballot, some negative consequences may be that it would curtail our right to select the candidate of our choice. Please let me know if it is wrong.
A short form ballot limits the amount of elegible offices to the most important legislative and executive positions, and leaves minor administrative and judiciary posts to be filled by appointment.
The main drawback of this system is that elected official may appoint unqualified people for those posts. Moreover, if the legislative and executive powers select the members of the judiciary power, division of powers and power balance is not properly functioning.
One thing that was happening in Europe during the late 1920s and early 1930s due to economic and political chaos was that "d. Totalitarian regimes were taking over in several nations," since this is what happened in Germany and Italy.
