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Selb, Peter, and Romain Lachat. "The More, the Better Counterfactual Evidence on the Effect of Compulsory Voting on the Consistency of Party Choice" European

Sept/Oct 2013

Neg: Voting Against Own Interests

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Voting against own interests/ideology
Uneducated voters who are forced to vote end up voting against own interests. RMF
Selb, Peter, and Romain Lachat. "The More, the Better Counterfactual Evidence on the
Effect of Compulsory Voting on the Consistency of Party Choice" European
Journal of Political Research (2009). Webb Turning now to these variances, we can see that the choices of voters who declared that they would never vote again if voting were voluntary are about three (among Flemings) to six times (among Wallonians) as variable as the party choices of the voluntary voters, with their proximity-based utilities being held constant. In other words, the proximity model indicates that unwilling or ignorant voters forced to the polls by CV tend to
make choices that are considerably less consistent with their policy preferences than voluntary voters.
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