Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Winston Churchill MS | Judge: Stephanie Franklin
Compulsory voting is known throughout the literature as compulsory participation. Lijphart
Arend Lijphart (Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at UC San Diego). “Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma”. The American Political Science Association. March 1997. 

Compulsory voting is…Ochoa 1987, 866-7). 

A framework of solving for pluralism is an institutional side constraint on democracies because accommodating everyone’s beliefs is necessary to create laws in the first place, as the entire citizenry can only be governed by one set of laws. Steijn:

Hermanus Gradus Steijn (University of Leiden, the Netherlands). “Facilitating a Moral Compromise in Plural Liberal Democracies: Why a Policy of Compulsory Attendance During Elections Is Justifiable”. Leiden Univeristy. June 2012. 

“People in liberal…are so disparate”

The nature of the right to vote requires political equality among qualified electors. As opposed to other rights, which protect citizens from flaws in democracy, the right to vote protects their ability to influence the government’s actions. Lardy:

Heather Lardy (Professor of Law at the University of Aberdeen). “Is There a Right Not to Vote?” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2. 2004.

“The right to vote is different…not to vote effectively suggest.”

Democracies normatively ought to respect the interests of all citizens equally because self-governance requires all people having a claim on the government’s actions. Young:

Young, Iris Marion. “Inclusion and Democracy”. Oxford University Press. 2000.  

“Third, there are at least…my task in Chapter 3.”

The method of reconciling these ethical differences should be generating a public moral compromise, in which citizens debate their viewpoints and reach an acceptable agreement by which they govern themselves. Steijn:

Hermanus Gradus Steijn (University of Leiden, the Netherlands). “Facilitating a Moral Compromise in Plural Liberal Democracies: Why a Policy of Compulsory Attendance During Elections Is Justifiable”. Leiden Univeristy. June 2012. 

“When people with different…settlement that is reasonable”. 

v.c.= fostering moral compromise
A high rate of political participation makes compromise more probable because it creates discussion and understanding between opposed interest groups, and helps them work together toward a mutually acceptable solution. Steijn:

Hermanus Gradus Steijn (University of Leiden, the Netherlands). “Facilitating a Moral Compromise in Plural Liberal Democracies: Why a Policy of Compulsory Attendance During Elections Is Justifiable”. Leiden Univeristy. June 2012. 

“A high level of participation…create genuine mutual respect.”

Compulsory voting creates high levels of voter turnout and political participation. Rovenský:

Jan Rovenský . “Voting: A Citizen’s Right, or Duty? The case against Compulsory Voting. Tesi di Dottorato, LUISS Guido Carli, Department of Political Science  PhD Program in Political Theory Doctoral Thesis 2008

“The advocates of CV point…compulsory voting template (2002c).”

Advocating a public duty to vote empirically increases political participation in other ways than just voting turnout, such as increasing a person’s political efficacy and their likelihood to cooperate in political discussions. Steijn:

Hermanus Gradus Steijn (University of Leiden, the Netherlands). “Facilitating a Moral Compromise in Plural Liberal Democracies: Why a Policy of Compulsory Attendance During Elections Is Justifiable”. Leiden Univeristy. June 2012. 

“One plus side of compulsory voting… Delli Carpini, Cook and Jacobs, 2004: 324).”

Compulsory voting laws empirically increase political discussion among voters subjected to them. This fosters moral compromise because citizens discuss their points of view and comes to an acceptable conclusion. Milazzo:

Caitlin Milazzo (Department of Political Science UC Davis) Institutions and Engagement: The Impact of Compulsory Voting Laws on Political Discussion in Switzerland, Prepared for the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2-5, 2009.

“Using genetic matching…(compulsory voting) has no effect.”