Since last week’s Brexit vote, new evidence has emerged suggesting that the result many have been influenced by widespread political ignorance. …
Preelection survey data indicates that many voters were significantly misinformed about many of the issues at stake in the Brexit debate. And the direction of these errors largely favored the Leave option. … Especially given the closeness of the vote (Leave prevailed by a narrow 52-48 margin), it is quite possible that the result would have gone the other way if the electorate had been better-informed. CONT.
Ilya Somin (George Mason U.), The Volokh Conspiracy