13NFL1-Compulsory Voting
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AT DONKEY VOTES
INVALID VOTES WOULDN
’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Peter Orszag 12, [Bloomberg View columnist, Vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the financial strategy and solutions group at Citigroup, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, "Make Voting Mandatory, Bloomberg.com, June 19,
2012. One concern -- voiced primarily by Republicans -- is that compulsory voting would raise participation rates among Democrats, because minority and low-income voters are among those least likely to go to the polls. Another, broader fear is apparent from Australia’s experience so- called donkey votes in which people vote for candidates based on the order they appear on the ballot or protest the whole process by checking none of the above The donkey votes, though, amount to well under 5 percent of the total. So the noise added to the voting process from compulsory voting appears to be minimal.
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