[EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs

[Donald E Davison]

Grreetings,

   Does anyone know if the German ballot has the party label along side
each candidate??
   I ask because if the party label is along side each candidate, that
would explain how this could happen. The voters were merely picking unknown
candidates by party label.
   If so, this says little for the claim by some that people wish to vote
for candidates and less for party.

Donald
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>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

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