This chapter examines the impact of political ignorance on the basic units of democratic input: individual votes cast in free elections. Do ill-informed people, regardless of their personal political views, tend as a group to favor certain kinds of candidates? If so, we might rightly question not only the ability of citizens to accurately communicate their needs, wants, and values through the ballot box, but also the quality of representation provided by this most basic of democratic institutions.
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