N/A. "National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections: 1960-2010". www.infoplease.com. 2011. 03/14/2012.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html
This site did not offer any information regarding whether or not voting should become mandatory in America. However it offered staggering, cold cut statistics of the voting turnout in Federal elections from 1960 up until America's most recent Federal Election in 2008. With the facts laid out it became very visible that the turnout for American elections are serverely down. 2008, which was the highest voter turnout in history in any American Federal Election only had 56.8% of the people of legal voting age come out and vote. These statistics prove that something must be done to increase the voter turn out.
Riley, Cam. "Compulsory vs. Voluntary Voting". http://www.southsearepublic.org. 11/2011. 03/14/2012.
http://www.southsearepublic.org/article/317/read/compulsory_vs_voluntary_voting.
This article, written by an Australian living in America displays the positives and negatives of Compulsory voting (mandatory) vs voluntary voting. The author, who's from Australia which is a nation that has a Compulsory voting intact has first hand knowledge of the positive and negatives of this type of voting. The author lives in America now, and has access to what are the apexes and downfalls of voluntary voting. His first hand accounts of each type of voting is very powerful towards my paper because, instead of being facts, figures and hypothetical situations his knowledge suggests the actualities of both sides.
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