Electoral system: Cleaning up the mess

Now that Anna Hazare is looking to intervene directly in coming state elections, it is perhaps the right time to examine what Team Anna has charted as its future agenda: electoral reforms. Among the proposals floated by Team Anna are the right to recall members of Parliament; a 'none of the above' option in electronic voting machines; and by calling for a countrywide vote on the Lokpal Bill, implicitly endorsing referendums on select issues. All these routes are available in some democracies. 

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