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grew from 7% to around 13%



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grew from 7% to around 13%. The results are not dissimilar in other countries, and are particularly pronounced in the United States, where turnout at presidential elections for the college educated can be
over 25% higher than that of the population as a whole, while those who lack a high-school diploma are
16% less likely to vote than the general population (Rose 2000, 316-7). (59)



Sept/Oct 2013

Aff: Turnout Inequality Harms Democracy

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Low turnout harms the socioeconomically disadvantaged. RMF
Lever, Annabelle. 2009. Is Compulsory Voting Justified. Public Reason 1 (1): 57-74.
So, it looks as though those people who do least well in our societies are least likely to vote and in what seems to be a vicious circle, those least likely to vote are least likely to attract sympathetic attention from
politicians eager to get elected or reelected. So inequalities in turnout are troubling, because they suggest
a vicious circle in which the most marginal members of society are further marginalized. Not only that insofar as these nonvoters are more likely to vote for social democratic polities than other people, and particularly likely to benefit from them, inequalities in turnout seem to deprive the left of a significant

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