A Feasible Roadmap To Compulsory Voting

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, The Atlantic
Mon, 11/02/2015 - 4:09am

Rogelio V. Solis / AP Not enough people vote. It’s a perennial source of concern in American politics. There’s no shortage of reforms designed to address the problem, but one idea that seems particularly promising, at least in theory, is compulsory voting. It would produce much higher turnout for the obvious reason that it requires people to vote.

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