Nor should this election be confused with David Cameron's promised in-out referendum.
If the reported possible ouster of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, has confused you, you're not alone.
In August, a Conservative MP who is retiring this election, Joy Smith, confused her party's own spin with a commitment to fund Freedom Road, but Rickford quickly corrected her, saying the Conservatives support the road's construction in principle but have not committed funding.
The lack of these protections created a chaotic election landscape that confused both voters and election officials.
The result of the last general election was confusing, in that sense.
Their election strategy -- confuse the middle, but feed the base -- suggests the answer.
Quirky voters don't always fill in the box, which - as in these four examples from an election audit - confuses vote-counting machines and leads to inaccurate counts.
Even without these uncertainties, today's election was confusing to many voters, with 3,718 candidates from 37 parties campaigning for 400 seats in parliamentary constituencies.
This year's U.S. presidential election is confusing for everyone.
