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Sept/Oct 2013 Aff: Increases Turnout foundationbriefs.com Page 20 of 104 Compulsory voting increases turnout Voter turnout is higher in Australia than involuntary voting democracies. RMF Allen, James. "In Praise of Compulsory Voting" Quadrant, May 2012. Webb At the last federal election in Canada, the country most similar to Australia in terms of its constitutional history, and my native land, the voter turnout was 61 percent. That was in the middle of last year. The election before that it was 59 percent. You have to go all the way back to the 1993 election to hit a turnout of close to 70 percent. Meantime provincial elections in Canada achieve voter turnout rates like 49 percent (at the Ontario election in October last year) and 40 percent (at the last Alberta election into take what are arguably Canada’s two most economically important provinces. And then there is the United Kingdom. The last general election therein saw voter turnout hit 65 percent. The one before that was 61 percent. You have to go back to Winston Churchill’s return to office into see a high figure like 82 percent.
What of the United States In the last two presidential elections of 2004 and 2008 the turnout rate was 57
per cent (if you look at the voting age population) or 63 percent (if you look at registered voters it was
51 percent (of the voting age population) in 2000; and it was 49 percent (ditto) back in 1996 when Bill
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