[EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs

[Wiseman, Julian]

alternatively, it shows the extent to which top-up systems undermine the
direct link between voters and MPs. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Markus Schulze [SMTP:schulze at sol.physik.tu-berlin.de]
> Sent:	Friday, October 08, 1999 10:40 AM
> To:	election-methods-list at eskimo.com
> Subject:	[EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs
> 
> In the last elections (27 Sep 1998) to the German Bundestag,
> something happened that demonstrated the direct link between
> the voters and their MPs: One poll station accidently used
> ballots that had been printed for a different constituency
> so that wrong candidates were listed on these ballots.
> The poll station opened at 8.00 a.m. and this accident
> was discovered by a voter at 1.15 p.m.. Until then already
> 277 voters had voted without even noticing that wrong
> ballots were used.
> 
> Markus Schulze
>