A new study from the University of Georgia found that even unenforced, or “toothless,” compulsory voting laws can increase voter turnout. Governments around the world are searching for ways to combat ...

Many democracy activists and political scientists have argued for making voting compulsory, in part because they presume it would increase the representation of disadvantaged socioeconomic groups.

Because a coin that is thrown up, irrespective of the number of times, would always fall on either of its two sides, many of us would similarly continue to tell the members of the House of ...

Illinois lawmakers are weighing boosting voter turnout by consolidating elections and considering compulsory voting. During a ...

Earlier this month Britain’s Labour government said it would lower the voting age in general elections from 18 to 16—the biggest change in suffrage in half a century. A more radical idea would be to ...