Is Compulsory Voting Defensible?

如果能够证明，在适当的条件下，针对工业化的自愿投票系统中投票率不断下降的问题，强制投票是一个可以接受的解决方案，那么澳大利亚的制度将提供一个理想的起点，以制定成功采用和管理强制投票的指导方针。由于澳大利亚可以说拥有世界上管理和容忍最好的强制投票制度，该项目在宣传、推广和输出我们的选举专业知识方面可能具有巨大的国家意义。该项目还将把澳大利亚奖学金定位在迅速扩大全球对这一实践的兴趣的前沿。

If it can be demonstrated that, under the right conditions, compulsory voting is an acceptable solution to the escalating problem of declining turnout in industrialised, voluntary-voting systems, then the Australian regime will provide the ideal starting point from which to produce guidelines for the successful adoption and management of compulsory voting. Since Australia has, arguably, the best managed and tolerated compulsory voting regime in the world, the project has potentially enormous national significance in terms of publicising, promoting and exporting our electoral expertise. The project will also position Australian scholarship at the forefront of rapidly expanding global interest in the practice.