13NFL1-Compulsory Voting
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RANDOM VOTING IS UNLIKELY TO BE A MAJOR PROBLEM.
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– 2007. The Case for Compulsory Voting in the United States Harvard Law Review, Vol.
121, No. 2 (Dec, 2007), pp. 591-612. A compulsory voting regime will result in some degree of "random voting" as is apparent from the experiences of other countries with compulsory voting. n This does not mean, however, that compulsory voting would simply introduce randomness into the electoral process and yield illegitimate outcomes. Rather, First random voting would likely be unproblematic because truly random votes would cancel each other out. n It is true that if everyone who voted only because of compulsion voted randomly, then the benefits discussed in Part II would be unlikely to materialize. This outcome seems unrealistic, however. Second There are many Americans who have clear political preferences but do not vote. n According to US. Census Bureau data, uncertainty about whom to vote for is not a major reason people do not vote. n Instead, most people do not vote because of compared to inconvenience, illness, transportation problems, registration problems, forgetfulness, or similar, nonpolitical reasons. n Randomness is thus unlikely to be a major problem with compulsory voting in the United States.
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