The 0.5Na(2)S + 0.5[xGeS(2) + (1 - x)PS5/2] mixed glass former (MGF) glass system exhibits a nonlinear and nonadditive negative change in the Na+ ion conductivity as one glass former, PS5/2 is exchanged for the other, GeS2. This behavior, known as the mixed glass former effect (MGFE), is also manifest in a negative deviation from the linear interpolation of the glass transition temperatures (T-g) of the binary end-member glasses, x = 0 and x = 1. Interestingly, the composition dependence of the densities of these ternary MGF glasses reveals a slightly positive MGFE deviation from a linear interpolation of the densities of the binary end-member glasses, x = 0 and x = 1. From our previous studies of the structures of these glasses using IR, Raman, and NMR spectroscopies, we find that a disproportionation reaction occurs between PS7/24- and GeS32- units into PS43- and GeS5/21- units. This disproportionation combined with the formation of Ge4S104- anions from GeS5/21- groups leads to the negative MGFE in T-g. A best-fit model of the T(g)s of these glasses was developed to quantify the amount of GeS5/21- units that form Ge4S104- molecular anions in the ternary glasses (similar to 5-10%). This refined structural model was used to develop a short-range structural model of the molar volumes, which shows that the slight densification of the ternary glasses is due to the improved packing efficiency of the germanium sulfide species.