Sept/Oct 2013 Neg Counters Doesn’t Increase Knowledge foundationbriefs.com Page 86 of 104 CV does not Increase Voter Knowledge JMR Rovensky, Jan. Voting A Citizens Right, or Duty The Case against Compulsory Voting. Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies. 2007. Pg 90. Apart from the two studies other evidence that compulsory voting promotes more political knowledge on behalf of the citizens is scarce – Grönlund and Milner (2006) actually found that CV countries had an under-average political knowledge amongst their citizens.
Schmidt (1974 quoted in Katz 1997) found that in the Netherlands the people who voted regularly before 1970 but failed to do so after the abolition of the compulsory vote, were disproportionately uninterested and uninformed about politics’. Also Loewen,
Milner and Hicks (2007: 12) after conducting a survey amongst young Canadian voters discovered that providing young voters with a financial disincentive from abstaining from voting did not increase how much they learned about politics. Though the aim of the authors is not to prove a point against
compulsory voting indeed, the opposite seems more accurate, in the end they are forced to concede that most arguments for the merits of compulsory voting would claim that
is the effects are conditional, then they are most likely to manifest themselves among those who would otherwise be unengaged, particularly youth (
Ibid: 16).
In other words, if CV were to have an impact, it should be most felt amongst the younger
generation their research, however, proves that this is not the case with increasing political knowledge through a system of compulsion.
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