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My (unresearched) understanding is that the returning officer's word is final. Candidates can demand a recount if the result is very close - and sometimes do - but a court challenge is unlikely.
I don't remember such a thing happening in the UK.
However there is no provision for re-voting because electors misunderstood the instructions.
This will of course be used as an excuse to attack the principle of proportional representation. Perhaps the lesson should be that we should adopt one system of PR and use it for all elections instead of having a different one for each type of election (especially if more than one is used on the same day).
Perhaps the lesson should be that we should adopt one system of PR and use it for all elections instead of having a different one for each type of election...
When first read I expanded "PR" to "Public Relations."
The sentence works either way, I suppose, depending on one's basic snark level.
;-) She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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