Content Authored by Wael Abdel Hamid
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Incentives to vote: A trivial carrot or a reliable solution for increasing voting turnout?
- Posted: December 9, 2010
- Author(s): Wael Abdel Hamid
- Categories: Home, FairVote
Voter turnout is abnormally low in the United States - -and closely correlates by eligible voter’s level of education and income. Compulsory voting can act as a stick to force voter turnout, but another approach is to encourage people to go to the polls by creating incentives to vote. Just as compulsory voting is not a clear cut issue, such reward-based practices can have their advantages and their disadvantages.
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Does mandatory voting restrict or expand democracy?
- Posted: October 18, 2010
- Author(s): Wael Abdel Hamid
- Categories: Elections Worldwide
Does mandatory voting restrict or expand democracy? For many people who have never heard about the idea, mandatory voting sounds very strict: requiring people to go to the polls on Election Day. In the United States, it seems strange to present an action many consider a right as a required duty. Nevertheless, in many foreign countries, mandatory voting (sometimes referred to as compulsory voting) is an obvious democratic option.