Sept/Oct 2013
Neg: Undermines Legitimacy
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Undermining the Legitimacy of Voting
Compulsory voting institutionalizes complacency with flaws in the electoral process, DAT
Hanna, Nathan. An Argument for Voting Abstention Public Affairs Quarterly.
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/
nth34/Nathan_Hanna/Papers_files/voting.pdf
Within the context of a seriously unfair electoral process and political conditions that limit the prospects of correcting the unfairness by means of voting, however, one need not see this opportunity as having much worth.
The unfairness of the electoral process and the conditions in which it is embedded arguably causes it to
consistently present citizens with inadequate choices and to present them in ways that give some an
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