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Honestly 66% is pretty good. Australia has compulsory voting, which I think is better (they have > 90% turnout). Canada was 62.2% in the last election (and they
by slashdev 3y ago
Honestly 66% is pretty good. Australia has compulsory voting, which I think is better (they have > 90% turnout). Canada was 62.2% in the last election (and they paid for it - imho), that’s roughly in line with the US. The global average is right in the middle at 63.8%.
That’s better than I thought.
- nicwilson 3y agoYes, compulsory voting is great, it removes a bunch of pathologies of democracy, to name a few: electioneering is about making people vote for me and not for others and not trying to waste effort to "fire up the base" (and therefore elections are much cheaper since the "volume of speech" required much lower); voter suppression is much harder to pull off since voting is a responsibility not just a right (still possible, just make the kill themselves, see the robodebt fiasco).