Eric Liu. Why Voting Should Be Mandatory Times. August 21, 2012.
http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/21/should-voting-be-mandatory/
Some Republicans will oppose mandatory voting for the reason they now push voter IDs to win. Conventional wisdom says the more people who vote, the worse the GOP does. But if a tactic of
disenfranchisement and electorate-amputation makes sense for the party (which is debatable, it is
terrible for the country. As former director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orzsag has pointed out, we can’t know what the ultimate partisan impact would be. One day Republicans could benefit.
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