The grand franchise theft - Who owns the candidates?

At least, that is, the psychological setting. It’s hard to contend with this fact. True, some would vote for anything that runs under their party symbol, even if it is a pig. Some would insist still, that they love their party but would have withheld their vote, had it been a different candidate.

As a matter of constitutional principle, though, the enquiry may be slightly different. The suffrage, and the resultant contract are between the voter and the representative. It’s not a clear black and white case. The vote is a amalgam of both voter preference of candidate and constitutional imperatives. The two, whilst distinct, are two sides of a coin. The vote is therefore, for the most part, indivisible. To put it simply that people vote for a party, is a falsity.