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Mandatory voting is essential for a healthy democracy.

• DanBC 13y ago
  It's scary, because what do you do when 58% of the total electorate tick the "None of the above" option? 2001, 2005, and 2010 UK elections had less than 70% turn out. That's a scary 30% to 35% of people forced to tick a box. I'm not sure having that many people randomly ticking a box is good for democracy, especially because it's probably not a random choice but determined things like position on the ballot paper.