No studies have been undertaken to demonstrate whether compulsory voting stimulates the populations to be more politically informed .
rather than reflecting who was more able to convince people to take time out of their day to cast a vote ( Do I even want to vote today ? ) .Other perceived advantages to compulsory voting are the stimulation of broader interest politics , as a sort of civil education and political stimulation , which creates a better informed population , although no studies have been undertaken to demonstrate that the populations of Belgium or Australia for instance , where compulsory voting has long existed , are better informed and more politically aware than the populations of New Zealand , France , Canada or the Scandinavian countries , where voting has never been compulsory .
Compulsory voting