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| 13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 22 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com Each of these points is something that the affirmative should bethinking about in the case. As the negative, you should think about how to exploit the affirmative’s failure to specify anyone of these things. That might take the form of the contention-level objections I outlined in explaining them, but it could also take the form of theoretical objections. The normal specification good theory shell is much stronger on this topic, and negatives would be well-served by crafting a topic-specific version of this shell. Plans All of the points listed above are things that the affirmative could specify in creating a plan text. A plan text on this topic should be very long, and should certainly address the three things I listed, in addition to laying out further details of the plan. Here are someways you could consider specifying Country. Choose a particular democracy that you think ought to have compulsory voting. The US. is certainly a viable option (if you go this route, consider adding to your plan that you will defend any amendments to the constitution necessary to make the system constitutional in order to get out of certain neg cases. But consider what kind of strategic benefit you want to get out of specification. For example, if you want to avoid dealing with issues and problems of implementation, you might consider specifying to a very small democracy (like Belgium, Luxembourg, or Malta, or a country that already has a compulsory voting system (Singapore, Thailand, Luxembourg. A valuable resource for anyone considering specifying a country, or running a plan of any kind, or just for anyone debating the topic, is The Electoral Commission’s Report, Compulsory Voting Around the World It outlines the policies of every country with a system in place. Who is voting compulsory for Perhaps you don’t want to make voting compulsory for the entire population but just fora certain set of citizens. Maybe only felons should be required to vote —this would give you the benefits of getting a historically underrepresented population to the polls and perhaps somewhat avoid the autonomy arguments of the negative because you can say that felons have already forgone autonomy. You could even couple this with saying that they ought to be required to publicly justify their decision, making it a whole civic rehabilitative program and heading off the argument that felons will sabotage the election or some such. Before moving onto other positions, it’s worth saying a word about how you could theoretically defend a specific advocacy on this topic. There are generic theory arguments that you could use 7 Younger, Sam, comp. Compulsory Voting around the world . Electoral Commission, 2006. |