Voter Engagement
Backing Evidence (5 Key Documents)
- Voter Turnout and Registration Policies in the US (Pew Research, 2020) Search
- The Impact of Voter ID Laws on Turnout (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019) Search
- Voter Mobilization and the Dynamics of Participation (American Political Science Review, 2018) Search
- Civic Engagement and Socioeconomic Inequality (Political Science Quarterly, 2017) Search
- The effect of mail-in voting on turnout (Science, 2020) Search
The Straw Man Arguments
- Increasing voter turnout is bad because uneducated voters will ruin the country.
- If we make voting mandatory, all of our political problems will instantly disappear.
The Steel Man (Strong Counter-Suit)
While voter turnout is important, policies intended to maximize turnout (like automatic voter registration or universal mail-in voting) can reduce secure chain-of-custody safeguards, potentially increasing administrative errors, reducing public confidence in election integrity, and over-burdening local election offices.