The resounding defeat of Article 13, a request to approve up to $500,000 in borrowing to fund a list of capital projects, was a voters’ revolt against “bundling” projects to achieve efficiency at the cost of transparency. So many different projects were included in the package, and there were so many unanswered questions about them, that it was hard not to conclude that the article was an incoherent mess. Had these projects been presented and considered one at a time, the ones that were problematic could have been rejected and the others passed, but as it was, the voters had little choice but to reject them all. It was a serious tactical error in presentation that hopefully won’t be repeated.