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>34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote. Or basically 34% of adults in America exercise their right not to vote. If we force everyone to
by ksec 2y ago
>34% of adults in America did not exercise their right to vote.
Or basically 34% of adults in America exercise their right not to vote. If we force everyone to vote like Australia, may be there should be an option of voting blank?
Basically I believe not voting for something is also a right. It is a vote to say ( may be ) I dislike both parties.
Out of curiosity I decided to look up historical turn out rate [1], and was supervised to learn 2024 has the second highest rate in history, or at least since 1932. Highest was actually last election.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...
- mondocat 2y ago> Or basically 34% of adults in America exercise their right not to vote. Maybe. Or they were unable to for any number of reasons, like not being able to get the time off work, for example. Compulsory voting does not mean you can't abstain, or shouldn't, but it does eliminate the people who want to vote, but for legal/logistical reasons, were unable to.
- rafabulsing 2y agoHere in Brazil voting is mandatory, but indeed, you can vote for no one. In fact, there are two ways to do so, interestingly enough: you can cast a "blank vote", literally just not picking anyone, or a "null vote", where you input a candidate that doesn't actually exist. In my view that's the ideal setup. Turnouts is always very high, even though the fine for not voting is laughably small (3.51 reais, literally less than a dollar). Good example of the power of defaults.