Why all our top parties are doing voters a disservice by cramming the European Parliament ballot papers with the names of ‘no hope’ candidates
Dunleavy, P.
, Hopkin, J.
& Kippin, S.
(2014).
Why all our top parties are doing voters a disservice by cramming the European Parliament ballot papers with the names of ‘no hope’ candidates.
When British voters go to the polls on 22 May to elect MEPs to the European Parliament for another five years, they will face complex ballot papers with large number of candidates on them. The Democratic Audit team explain how the List PR system works and show how all the major parties follow practices that makes the ballot papers far more difficult for voters to understand than they could be.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2014 Democratic Audit UK |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 11 Jul 2014 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57782 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2650-6398
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3187-4013