Sept/Oct 2013
Neg: No Change in Outcome
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The underlying problems and inequalities of the voting process are not eliminated, DAT
Jakee, Keith, and Martin Kenneally. Increasing Voter Turnout What Difference Can
Compulsory Voting Make Florida Atlantic University, 2009.
Our results suggest that, in these circumstances even with low turnout rates, moving from a voluntary to a compulsory system is likely to have only have a minor impact at most safe seats will remain safe and beyond the reach of challenger candidates, even under a compulsory system. And, in Northern European countries, where turnout is already very high, CVRs are likely to have even less impact on seat turnover because the pool of abstainers upon which the trailing candidate must draw is small.
Consequently, those election observers who are dissatisfied with current low rates of voter turnout may
have to look to institutional changes other than compulsory voting to change what they view as
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