Automatic Registration Can Increase Voter Turnout JMR
Lijphart, Arend. Unequal Participation Democracy’s Unresolved Dilemma. The
American Political Science review, Volume 91, Issue 1. March 1997. Pg 7.
Raymond E. Wolfinger and Steven J. Rosenstone (1980, 73, 88) found that turnout would increase by 9.1 percentage points if all states adopted completely liberalized registration rules, but they also argued that turnout would be raised substantially more by a European-style system in which registration is automatic or the government’s responsibility. On the basis of his comparative analysis, Powell (1986, 36) concludes that automatic registration could boost turnout by up to 14 percentage points.
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