It's not perfect. We get a booklet explaining the voting issue at hand, things are also discussed in the media and on political parties websites. If it's a re

It's not perfect. We get a booklet explaining the voting issue at hand, things are also discussed in the media and on political parties websites. If it's a referendum then both the referendum people and the government get pages to explain their point of view. If the government disagrees they often use scary words to make people vote against it. If it's a constitution change you see the diff. Like any diff it's not always obvious how it inscribes itself in the bigger picture. The constitution is much larger than the us-one as it includes all sorts of things. At the end of the booklet you also get to see what each political party (10-15 of them) would vote. People use all of these sources to take a decision, putting different weights on different things. I think a lot of people just defer to what their preferred party recommends.