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I think that stat could easily be attributed to a lack of familiarity with what is, to a lot of people, a new and different method of voting. You'd be surprised how many people don't adequately read or understand directions.
In other words, what you're describing isn't inherent to the system itself and it could be much worse.
I'd guess that the number of people who bullet vote will decrease as the level of education and familiarity around "new" voting systems like RCV increases.
Actually, no.
Bullet voting is just a thing people do.
Even in places that have been using versions of RCV for decades, about 30% of any given population will bullet vote.
That's info from FairVote themselves (The main proponents of RCV, even if they're sort of scummy in their advocacy)