The Compulsory Voting legislation was tabled in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The legislation, if implemented, will be extremely crucial in shaping the democratic process in Gujarat and will have historical impact on the lives of citizens. In the wake of this, Research Foundation for Governance (RFG), conducted a detailed study on the phenomenon of compulsory voting and has drawn suggestions from people of Gujarat by conducting a survey. This was a cross-sectional survey on over 260 subjects covering all educational and socio-economic backgrounds in an attempt to assess what the citizens of Gujarat think about the Compulsory Voting Bill. We backed up this survey by organising one of the first public-debates on this issue in the State and took our findings to the youth population of the state. We then came up with a paper on this, analysing also how compulsory voting is being implemented in other countries.
Implementation of the Compulsory Voting Bill
