[EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs

[Wiseman, Julian]

Not In Tatton. (UK General Election, May 1997.) A very Conservative seat
went to an independent because the Conservative's particular candidate was
deemed unsavoury. 

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> From:	donald at mich.com [SMTP:donald at mich.com]
> Sent:	Friday, October 08, 1999 1:56 PM
> To:	election-methods-list at eskimo.com
> Subject:	Re: [EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs
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> 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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