tend to vote for what they believe to be the national interest. We don’t need to worry about protecting nonvoters from selfish voters. Instead, we should worry about whether voters will invest the time to learn which policies really serve the public good. According to Brennan, bad decisions in the voting booth contribute to bad government needless wars homophobic, sexist, and racist legislation lost prosperity and more. While all citizens should have an equal
right to vote, someone who wants to abstain from voting because he doesn’t feel he knows the right
answers—or for any other reason—should be allowed to do sob Brennan concludes that mandatory voting guarantees high turnout but not better government.
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