Compulsory Voting
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Re “ ‘Baskin-Robbins’ Voting,” Commentary, July 6: To support his argument that Belgium’s system of voting is better than ours, Andrew Reding pointed out that voter turnout there is 91.6%. However, he left out an important detail: Belgian law requires all its citizens to vote. Their system draws more people to the polls not because it is inherently superior but because they have no choice.
Catherine Timmins
La Habra
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