Betsey Stanford's List: Mandatory Voting Research

• Fisher said a small percentage of voters who haven't chosen a party turn in a blank ballot to avoiding being fined, but the majority devote at least some time to figuring out which party best represents their views.
  
• "It does make people think about what they're going to vote for, so even if people were not naturally inclined to be interested in politics, the fact that they are going to vote means that they do give it some thought," he said.
• "I think it has a general educational effect on the population
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   "Sometimes, in order to save democracy, you have to do things that might seem to run a little bit against it," said Kingsley

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• he American and French Revolutions.^[21] Democracy has been called the "last form of government" and has spread considerably across the globe.^[22] The right to vote has been expanded in many Jurisdictions over time from relatively narrow groups (such as wealthy men of a particular ethnic group), wit
• New Zealand the first nation to grant universal suffrage for all its citizens in 1893.

• Canada has traditionally enjoy very high levels of voter participation in federal elections.

• Approximately twenty-five percent of eligible voters aged 18 – 24 voted in the 2000 federal election. Moreover, studies have indicated that many youth who don’t vote remain uninvolved in the political system, and do not voting when they get older.