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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0170795b71w| Title: | Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting |
| Contributors: | Working Group on Universal Voting |
| Keywords: | Suffrage—United States—History—21st century Voting, Compulsory |
| Issue Date: | 20-Jul-2020 |
| Publisher: | Brookings Institution |
| Place of Publication: | Washington, D.C. |
| Description: | Imagine an American democracy remade by its citizens in the very image of its promise, a society where the election system is designed to allow citizens to perform their most basic civic duty with ease. Imagine that all could vote without obstruction or suppression. Imagine Americans who now solemnly accept their responsibilities to sit on juries and to defend our country in a time of war taking their obligations to the work of self-government just as seriously. Imagine elections in which 80 percent or more of our people cast their ballots—broad participation in our great democratic undertaking by citizens of every race, heritage, and class, by those with strongly-held ideological beliefs, and those with more moderate or less settled views. And imagine how all of this could instill confidence in our capacity for common action. This report is offered with these aspirations in mind and is rooted in the history of American movements to expand voting rights. Our purpose is to propose universal civic duty voting as an indispensable and transformative step toward full electoral participation. Our nation’s current crisis of governance has focused unprecedented public attention on intolerable inequities and demands that Americans think boldly and consider reforms that until now seemed beyond our reach. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0170795b71w |
| Related resource: | https://www.brookings.edu/research/lift-every-voice-the-urgency-of-universal-civic-duty-voting/ |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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