“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years"

As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of 'compulsory voting' and how it’s shaped the nation’s politics.

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist and co-author of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, had this to say about this article from Bolts:

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