13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 128 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com RESOURCES COMPULSORY VOTING IS TOO MUCH OF A DRAIN ON RESOURCES. Anthoula Malkopoulou postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Academy Project, "Lost Voters Participation in EU elections and the case for compulsory voting, Centre for European Policy Studies Working Document No. July 2009. Other opponents claim that compulsory voting is difficult and expensive to enforce. They draw on the existing state of the art, where half of the states with compulsory voting laws today do not have serious enforcement mechanisms. This happens because the judicial resources are not sufficient to deal with the thousands of cases (e.g. Argentina and elsewhere, or because the costs incurred by the administration for sanctioning nonvoters is too high. A law that exists only in name but not in reality discredits the legal system.
