Sept/Oct 2013
Neg Case
foundationbriefs.com
Page 104 of 104
Contention Two People who are forced to vote tend to vote against
their own interests.
In addition to, or rather, because compulsory voting systems encourage ignorant voting, these voters tend to vote against their own interests. According to the European Journal of Political Research, unwilling or ignorant voters forced to the polls by CV tend to make choices that are considerably less consistent with their policy preferences than voluntary voters Georgetown University’s Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy Professor Jason Brennan explains that the idea that mandatory voting decreases inequality relies upon the false assumption that people vote for their own interests. In contrast, political scientists have found over and again that people tend to vote for what they believe to be the national interest This shows that mandatory voting is not only ineffective, it is contradictory—leading to worse voting systems rather than improved ones and thereby again contradicting Stuart Mill’s criterion for utilitarian government.
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