13NFL1-Compulsory Voting
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POLITICS
ANY PUSH TO INSTITUTE COMPULSORY VOTING WOULD BEAN UPHILL POLITICAL
BATTLE.
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. Politicians don’t seem to believe the dominant political science view suggesting mandatory voting would have little effect on elections, perhaps with good reason given some research suggesting a larger impact. Moving to compulsory voting would probably require a constitutional change and almost certainly would require the participation of both parties. It could be instituted only when it would not be of obvious benefit to one political party over another.
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