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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Where Not Voting Is A Crime

Both Uruguay and Brazil voted over the weekend. Kathy Gilsinan focuses on the fact that those “countries have compulsory voting, under which failure to vote is punishable by a fine.” She looks at why these laws came about: In a 2010 paper, Gretchen Helmke and Bonnie Meguid of the University of Rochester investigated the origins […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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