[EM] Direct Link Between Voters and MPs

[Markus Schulze]

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