Sept/Oct 2013 Aff: Increases Turnout foundationbriefs.com Page 21 of 104 Success of Mandatory Voting AMS Armin Shafer. Republican Liberty and Compulsory Voting Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies November 2011. In many established democracies, turnout is declining – albeit to different degrees. If we look at 20 countries that have continuously held democratic
elections since World War II, we see that turnout in parliamentary elections has declined.
(…) Whereas turnout today is comparatively low in Switzerland
or the United States, it still surpasses 80
percent in Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden.
In countries with mandatory voting, turnout is even higher. More than 90 percent of eligible voters regularly show up at the polls in Australia, Belgium, and Luxembourg. 
