The results are a mixture of typical midterm protest and "rage against the machine, " said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the LondonSchoolofEconomics and PoliticalScience.
Cardinals used to sign their names to ballots, but stopped doing so "due to an old history of intrigues and tensions when people used to fear the most serious reprisals for their choices, " says Michael Bruter, who teaches politicalscience at the LondonSchoolofEconomics.