Is the Electoral Commission a Facilitator of Deception?

21/10/2018

This isn't a new article, but I've only just seen it.

Some of the content refers to issues I've mentioned before, but there are some points I haven't referenced previously.

I think it's worth a read.

Click the ballot paper to read the London School of Economics article

"Any recognition that something is (very) wrong here, should also imply the annulment of the Brexit referendum outcome."

"Given the referendum outcome, do you really think that the UK population is clear in its position, whatever the issues of how to leave or the risk of a UK breakup? If you have doubts on the latter, then you agree that something is amiss."

"Voting theory generally suggests that representative democracy — Parliament — is better than relying on referenda, since the representatives can bargain about the complex choices involved."

"...the UK government, by ignoring voting theory, has posed a very misleading question given the complexity of the issue under decision."

"A referendum result is democratically legitimate only if voters can make an informed decision. Yet the level of misinformation in the current campaign is so great that democratic legitimacy is called into question."

"Based upon voting theory, the Brexit referendum question can be rejected as technically unsatisfactory. One could even argue that the UK government should have annulled the outcome based on this basis alone."