His election could also affect other areas, like climate change legislation and reforms in the financial system.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

The post-election reforms instituted by Sen.

NPR: The Eagleton Fiasco of 1972

The right for candidates to add their own seals has survived repeated reforms of election law, currently regulated by the Representation of the People Act.

BBC: BNP to put own seals on ballot boxes over fraud fears

Only the blessed accident of a hung parliament (in which neither main party will have a working majority) at the next or some future election can lead to reforms of parliamentary practice, to greater accountability and to the constitutional checks on minority parliamentary rule that Britain now lacks.

ECONOMIST: From the archive