Quand il est confondu, la loi électorale détermine imprévisibilité des résultats et suscite la critique de la jurisprudence et de la doctrine: voir (it) Giampiero Buonomo, Materia elettorale in cerca di coerenza, Diritto e giustizia, 3 marzo 2001 et Giampiero Buonomo, Perché non poteva essere considerato ammissibile, L'ago e il filo, janvier-février 2012.
«Elections are run by the Public Relations industry, which markets candidates much as it markets commodities in TV ads. The goal of marketing is to create uninformed consumers making irrational choices, thus to undermine the markets we are taught to revere, in which informed consumers make rational choices. The same techniques are used to undermine democracy.» «Anomie, oil wars and US elections», Politis, 11 novembre 2008. [lire en ligne]
Francis Delpérée, Eva Bruce, Sophie de Cacqueray, Guylène Nicolas et Stéphan Sciortino-Bayart, «Le contentieux électoral», Annuaire international de justice constitutionnelle, no12, , p.397-415 (lire en ligne)
