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{
"time": "2016-10-03 19:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Blake Richards",
"fr": "M. Blake Richards"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"4534466\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Thank you.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4534467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Professor Dassonville, in regard to compulsory voting which is obviously the main body of your research, you mentioned earlier that you felt it probably wouldn't significantly change the results in an election because, for the most part, the make-up of those who are not voting now, in terms of demographics and also in terms of the parties they support, probably would be quite similar to the electorate that is voting.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4534468\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was curious to know if you'd ever done or seen any research on the effect it's had on where someone's placed on the ballot. In other words, with mandatory voting I've heard often that sometimes people will go in and randomly make a selection on the ballot because they're forced to go and vote. I've heard it referred to as donkey voting, as in pin the tail on the donkey. I'm wondering if you've ever seen or done any studies on....They often talk about the person whose name is first or last on the ballot having an advantage. Has there ever been any studies on that? In other words, with mandatory voting, do we see more often a higher percentage of the first or last candidate on the ballots being chosen? I know there are ways that that can be remedied, obviously, but I'm curious as to whether\u2014</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"4534466\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je vous remercie.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4534467\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame Dassonville, pour ce qui est du vote obligatoire, qui constitue manifestement votre principal domaine de recherche, vous avez mentionn\u00e9, il y a un instant, que vous pensez que cela ne modifierait pas de fa\u00e7on importante les r\u00e9sultats des \u00e9lections parce que, dans l'ensemble, les caract\u00e9ristiques des personnes qui ne votent pas en ce moment, sur le plan des donn\u00e9es d\u00e9mographiques et \u00e9galement des partis qu'ils appuient, seraient tr\u00e8s probablement tr\u00e8s semblables \u00e0 celles des \u00e9lecteurs qui votent. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4534468\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais bien savoir si vous avez fait ou vu de la recherche, sur l'effet que cela a pu avoir sur la place qu'occupe un candidat sur le bulletin de vote. Autrement dit, avec le vote obligatoire, on nous a souvent dit que les gens iraient voter et choisiraient au hasard un nom sur le bulletin, parce qu'ils sont oblig\u00e9s de le faire. J'ai entendu que l'on comparait cela \u00e0 un jeu \u00e0 l'aveugle dans lequel il faut \u00e9pingler la queue de l'\u00e2ne. Je me demande si vous avez fait ou vu une \u00e9tude sur... On entend souvent dire que la personne dont le nom se trouve \u00e0 la premi\u00e8re ou \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re place sur le bulletin de vote a un avantage. A-t-on fait des \u00e9tudes sur cet aspect? Autrement dit, avec le vote obligatoire, est-il plus fr\u00e9quent que le premier ou le dernier candidat dont le nom figure sur les bulletins soit \u00e9lu? Je sais qu'il existe des fa\u00e7ons de rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 cela, bien \u00e9videmment, mais j'aimerais bien savoir si...</p>"
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