If everyone is required to submit a ballot (blank or otherwise) in every federal election or to pay a fine for not submitting a ballot, voter turnout will increase dramatically in all elections. Further, if everyone is required to submit a ballot, the current disenfranchisement of senior citizens, college students, people of color, and poor and lower-middle-class people (detailed in http://www.alternet.org/story/154842/voter_suppression_101%3A_how_conservatives_are_conspiring_to_disenfranchise_millions_of_americans?page=entire) will be unable to continue.