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But low turnout may frequently be due not to apathy, but to inability to get to the polls. I think this differentially affects the working poor, whose employers
by ridgeguy 8y ago
But low turnout may frequently be due not to apathy, but to inability to get to the polls. I think this differentially affects the working poor, whose employers may deny them compensated time to vote. They're poor and can't take a chance that their employers will retaliate against them for exercising their suffrage.
Compulsory voting could easily include a requirement that employers impose no penalty at all on an employee who takes time from work to vote.
- specialist 8y agoFor the USA, universal voter registration and compulsory voting would utterly moot multiple recurring dramas, imagined or legit. Purging, caging, shunting voters to provisionals, registration errors, challenges (eg mismatched signatures), insufficient poll sites and ballots, etc, etc. But then what would the infotainment complex talk about if we engineered away all the manufactured outrage and electioneering?