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Lesson 4.2 Day 3
| 13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 4 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com P ARTY S TABILITY ............................................................................................................................. 84 COMPULSORY VOTING INCREASES PARTY STABILITY. ........................................................................84 P OLARIZATION ................................................................................................................................. 85 COMPULSORY VOTING WOULD DECREASE POLITICAL POLARIZATION. ............................................85 P OLITICAL I NTEGRATION ................................................................................................................... 86 COMPULSORY VOTING PROMOTES POLITICAL INTEGRATION. ............................................................86 P UBLIC O PINION .............................................................................................................................. 87 COMPULSORY VOTING IS POPULAR IN AUSTRALIA. ..............................................................................87 R IGHTS ........................................................................................................................................... 88 VOTING PROTECTS RIGHTS. .....................................................................................................................88 D EMOCRACY P ROMOTION ................................................................................................................ 89 LOW VOTER TURNOUT HARMS THE EU’S ABILITY TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY. ...............................89 A2 U NINFORMED V OTERS ................................................................................................................ 90 EMPIRICAL LITERATURE THAT CONCLUDES MANDATORY VOTING PROMOTES AN UNINFORMED ELECTORATE SUFFERS FROM SEVERE METHODOLOGICAL FLAWS. OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES ARE ESPECIALLY TROUBLING. COMPULSORY VOTING LAWS ACTUALLY INCREASE INFORMED VOTING. ARGUMENTS ABOUT UNINFORMED VOTERS ARE IMPLAUSIBLE. ........................................................92 AT D ONKEY V OTES .......................................................................................................................... 93 INVALID VOTES WOULDN ’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. RANDOM VOTING IS UNLIKELY TO BE A MAJOR PROBLEM. ..................................................................94 AT P ATERNALISM ............................................................................................................................. 95 COMPULSORY VOTING IS NOT PATERNALISTIC, BUT RATHER ENSURES AUTONOMY. ...................95 AT R IGHT N OT TO V OTE .................................................................................................................. 96 THE RIGHT NOT TO VOTE DOES NOT AND SHOULD NOT EXIST. .........................................................96 AT U NCERTAINTY ............................................................................................................................ 97 THE UNCERTAINTY OF A VOTES IMPACT IS NOT A REASON THAT COUNTS AGAINST THE OBLIGATION TO VOTE. ...............................................................................................................................97 AT V IOLATES F REEDOM ................................................................................................................... 98 COMPULSORY VOTING IS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT ON AUTONOMY. THE FREE CHOICE ARGUMENT IS IMPLAUSIBLE FOR SEVERAL REASONS. LIBERTARIAN VIEWS OF DEMOCRACY PREVENT ARE INCOHERENT BECAUSE THEY DENY THE ABILITY TO ENGAGE IN ACTUAL DECISION-MAKING. THERE IS NO MORALLY RELEVANT DISTINCTION IN TERMS OF AUTONOMY BETWEEN COMPULSORY VOTING AND TAXES, JURY DUTY, OR MILITARY SERVICE. TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, WE COULD JUST ALLOW PEOPLE TO BE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS – JUST LIKE FOR OTHER POLICIES THAT ATTEMPT TO SOLVE COLLECTIVE ACTION PROBLEMS A CITIZEN’S CHOICE TO NOT VOTE ISN’T UNIVERSALIZABLE AND FREE RIDES ON THE BENEFITS THAT VOTERS GIVE TO SOCIETY. ...........................................................................................................103 A2 C ONSTITUTIONALITY ................................................................................................................. 104 |