Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Immaculate Hart KH | Judge: Bob Overing
I negate the resolved.

To clarify, I offer the following definitions.

Voting is “a formal …or by voice.” (New Oxford American Dictionary)

Compulsory means “involving or exercising compulsion”. (New Oxford American Dictionary) 

Prefer for two reasons

Value Demo

David Collier and Steven Levitsky*
Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
Copyright © 1997 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

Collier and Levitsky define democracy as 

“Within this framework, we focus …crucial issue in some countries.”

The criterion is respecting basic democratic rights, 

Contention 1 Compulsory voting denies freedom of association.

By forcing citizens to be … a fundamental right of democracy. 

Contention 2. Compulsory voting denies the right to free speech.

Harvard Law Review, 2007 The Case for Compulsory Voting in the United States, Vol. 121, No. 2 (Dec., 2007), pp. 591-612

 “Unlike some rights, the First … of the electoral process altogether. “

Harvard Law Review 2 furthers: 

Harvard Law Review, 2007 The Case for Compulsory Voting in the United States, Vol. 121, No. 2 (Dec., 2007), pp. 591-612

 “One of the chief … to having an inverse right).”
And the Right Not to Vote is Central to Democratic Principles

Lever, Annabelle. "Is Compulsory Voting Justified?" British Journal of Political Science(2009): n. pag. JSTOR. Web. 19 Aug. 2013 March of 2009

“Despite the claims of proponents … that the former do not.”