“unrepresentative” election outcomes. Other measures to make seats more representative might include redistricting, or institutional changes, such as term limits, campaign spending reform, or rules governing the incumbent advantages of pork barrel spending. We are not actively endorsing these changes, since attempts to make seats more representative in the context of redistricting congressional boundaries, for example, comes with an additional set of problems (Buchler 2007). In any case, compelling more citizens to vote is unlikely to have to the effects desired by those who lament low voter turnout rates. Furthermore, if a CVR is unlikely to have little effect on VVR results, it is reasonable to question the value of imposing the costs of compulsion on both the abstainers and the electoral commission responsible for detecting and enforcing a compulsory vote.
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