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Full Idea
If rights concern people's interests, that might support mandatory voting, but if rights rely on protecting autonomy that might oppose it.
Gist of Idea
Rights as interests (unlike rights as autonomy) supports mandatory voting
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 5 'Interest')
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.115
A Reaction
I approach it from the other end, and am inclined to support mandatory voting, which suggests I am more concerned about interests than about autonomy.
Related Ideas
Idea 20603 One theory (fairly utilitarian) says rights protect interests (but it needs to cover trivial interests) [Tuckness/Wolf]
Idea 20604 Choice theory says protecting individual autonomy is basic (but needs to cover infants and animals) [Tuckness/Wolf]