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Citizen LinusCitizen LinusPosted Sep 14, 2010 23:13 UTC (Tue) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)In reply to: Citizen Linus by dskoll Parent article: Citizen Linus
If you look at all the countries with compulsory voting, the informal vote is quite low.
This year in Australia the informal vote was 1%, probably the highest ever, and that was because of an orchestrated campaign to vote informal, and because the two main parties were both shit.
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Citizen Linus Posted Sep 15, 2010 11:03 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] OK, but I still don't see any evidence that compulsory voting improves outcomes. I looked at the list of countries on Wikipedia that enforce compulsory voting, and by any measure I can think of (freedom index, human development, economic indexes, etc.) they don't seem to be better off than countries that don't enforce compulsory voting.
Citizen Linus Posted Sep 16, 2010 18:26 UTC (Thu) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]
Too bad. I would've thought the non-votes were much higher. OK, then it may be bad.
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