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Mandatory voting, what an absurd idea. If you can't get people to voluntarily participate in democracy then you have a failed implementation of it. Furthermor
by cloakandswagger 9y ago
Mandatory voting, what an absurd idea.
If you can't get people to voluntarily participate in democracy then you have a failed implementation of it.
Furthermore, the ability to not vote is a powerful and necessary option, as it's hard for those in power to imply that they have a mandate if <10% of the population actually participated in it.
I don't know what mandatory voting accomplishes except giving those in power the ability to say, "Tut tut! No complaining! You got your vote, after all."
- undersuit 9y agoYou still have the ability to not vote, Australia just fines you for not voting. What's more powerful of a statement: not voting with no obligation to vote, or not voting in spite of the punishment?
- pjc50 9y agoMandatory voting doesn't actually require a choice, you can just file a blank ballot. What it does completely deal with is the voter registration question.