Tournament: Brandeis | Round: 2 | Opponent: CD | Judge: NA
I negate the resolution:
Resolved: In a democracy, voting ought to be compulsory

Compulsory: required by law or a rule (Merriam-Webster)

As it is the Resolutional Burden of the Affirmative to advocate for compulsory voting, and compulsory is mandated by law, then the Affirmative must provide reasonable legal consequence if the law is broken. Not providing such a consequence means that even if the Affirmative fails, then there is no consequential repercussion, leading to an unfair debate.

The Standard for the Debate is decreasing voter turnout

Contention 1: Low Voter Turnout Good
LOW VOTER TURNOUT WILL CONTINUE TO GET WORSE
Anabelle Lever, Philosophy Professor-London School of Economic and Political Science, 2008, "Compulsory voting: a critical perspective," British Journal of Political Science, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23098/1/Compulsory_voting28LSERO29.pdf, p. 5-6

VOTER TURNOUT IN US/OTHER DEMOCRACIES IN LONG TERM DECLINE
Jason Marisam, Post-Graduate Research Fellow-Harvard Law School, 2009, "Voter Turnout: From Cost to Cooperation," St. Thomas Law Review, Winter, 21 St. Thomas L. Rev. 190, p. 192-3
Wilkinson 08
Will Wilkinson is a research fellow at the Cato Institution. The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — a think tank – dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.
“Thank You for Not Voting”; this article appeared in the Ottawa Citizen on October 22, 2008. http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/thank-you-not-voting

Hobby, 97
Bill Hobby is a reporter for the Houston Chronicleon, article released for the Huston Chronicleon on  Dec. 3, 1997, “So maybe low voter turnout isn't always a bad thing?”

False political advertising defeats the democratic process
Staci Lieffring 2013
Staci Lieffring is a J.D. Candidate 2013, University of Minnesota Law School; B.S.B., B.A. 2010, University of Minnesota, “First Amendment and the Right to Lie: Regulating Knowingly False Campaign Speech After United States v. Alvarez” http://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Lieffring_MLR.pdf