Editing Compulsory voting (section)

=== Reduce income inequality ===
A 2005 [[Inter-American Development Bank]] working paper purported to show that there was a correlation between compulsory voting, when enforced strictly, and improved income distribution, as measured by the [[Gini coefficient]] and the bottom income quintiles of the population.<ref>Chong, Alberto and Olivera, Mauricio, [http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=wp-533 "On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106090247/http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details,3169.html?pub_id=wp-533 |date=2014-01-06 }}, Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper, May 2005.</ref> A 2011 [[Conference Board of Canada]] study on [[International inequality|world income inequality]] – also relying on the Gini index – shows that income inequality is lowest in the Scandinavian countries, where compulsory voting has never existed, while Australia, and to a lesser extent Belgium, which strictly enforce their compulsory voting legislation, have a higher income inequality level than a number of other Western countries, such as Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, where compulsory voting does not exist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/worldInequality.aspx|url-status=dead|title=Hot Topic: World Income Inequality – Is the world becoming more unequal?|publisher=Conference Board of Canada|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925154617/http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/hot-topics/worldInequality.aspx|archive-date=2011-09-25|access-date=2025-03-05}}</ref>