Sept/Oct 2013 Aff: Turnout Inequality Harms Democracy foundationbriefs.com Page 28 of 104 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 Share with your friends: 
