Britons should be forced to vote, says influential charity as turnouts drop
The Constitutional Association should have to make a ballot ballot in every voter in the UK.
The Educational Charity Institution said in the last general elections (59.7 percent) underlining the democracy of participation with a disaster ”participation democracy and left the young and working class representatively.
And the Australian style said that the compulsory vote would eliminate the imbalance and that the deputies and the government would force them to pay attention to the interests of young people and tenants.
Only 59.7 percent of those who are suitable for the vote formed a ballot over July, from the 2019 general elections (67.3 percent) and since 2001 at the lowest level (59.4 percent).
The Constitutional Association, Britain’s illegal unequal participation, economic stagnation, political frustration, and a stuck in the vicious circle of democratic decay-a cycle that creates conditions in which it can develop.
In his report, low participation found that politicians pursued policies that strengthen inequality and reduce economic growth, increasing dissatisfaction with the democratic process.
Report writer David Klemperer warned that “low and unequal participation abandoned Britain with a non -representative voter”. Dr Klemperer said that voters were disproportionately richer, older and whiter than the population as a whole.
“This has created distorted incentives for politicians who were pushed to give priority to the interests of an economically insulated minority,” he added.
For philanthropy, Yougov poll found that almost half of the people (48 percent) would be achieved and would support 42 percent to oppose.
Seven of 10 people are concerned that politicians ignore the interests of less likely to vote.
And Professor of Political Science, Rob Ford, said that voters had to have a large and largely positive effect on the elections in the UK ”that voters had to make a ballot.
“Currently, age and housing status are the most powerful foresters of participation, elderly landlords are more likely to vote. By reducing the differences in participation, they will force compulsory voting politicians to pay more attention to the interests of young people and tenants.”
And the election zone, the fifth of the lowest participation in the last general elections Antonia Bance, “low participation has understood that the damage to democracy,” he said.
Bance said: “Low participation means that we do not even take into account the views of younger and ethnic minority voters, and leads to chronic insufficient representation of the working class and interests.
“Mandatory voting will correct the balance, make sure that the sounds of the working class are heard properly and make our politics better.”
Since 1924, Australians need to vote for national elections after a decline in participation in the 1922 Federal elections. If they do not appear, they will be fined $ 20. As a result, the participation in some elections was as high as 96 percent and has never fallen below 91 percent since compulsory voting.
The government was asked to comment.
