medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Professor Wu: Mandatory voting is the only way to ensure that a government truly represents the will of its entire population. When voting is optional, policies tend to favor the demographic groups that are most likely to show up at the polls. Professor Chen: Forcing citizens to vote results in a large number of uninformed ballots, which can skew election results in ways that do not reflect the considered will of the people. High turnout is only valuable if it is the result of genuine civic engagement.
Wu and Chen disagree over which one of the following?
- Whether compelling all citizens to vote is the surest route to a government that genuinely represents its whole population.
- Whether a democratic government ought to give special priority to the interests of historically marginalized demographic groups.
- Whether a single citizen can simultaneously be poorly informed and authentically engaged in civic life.
- Whether voluntary voting systems are, by their very nature, more morally defensible than compulsory ones.
- Whether election outcomes under any voting system can ever perfectly mirror the considered will of the people.
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