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Not Voting Should Not Be a Choice
If "nudging" people to vote won't work, why not try compulsory voting?
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When this November we elect the people to lead our country, maybe 40 percent or even fewer will go to vote. Is it too late to stop this disgrace?
To take a page from "Nudge," by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, we might try "nudging" people to vote. Here's one way: a personal, guilt-inducing letter of invitation to everyone to vote, mailed by every secretary of state to every citizen, registered or not, for whom there is a driver's license or state identification of any kind.