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Australia has mandatory voting. Why not the US?
Lmao the same people suppressing voting rights wont agree to that
Just wondering, how is mandatory voting enforced? I assume vote cops don't show up at your door.... What if you turn in a ballot with no choice marked?
You receive a penalty notice in the mail and have to pay a fine. Similar to a traffic infringement or parking fine.
All elections are held on a weekend and voting booths are everywhere, to make it a little easier for everyone to vote.
You can choose to not mark the ballot, no one would know. As long as you turn up to a booth and get your name marked off, then you are considered to have voted.
As a result, voter turnout is generally over 90%.
And yet they still regularly have a right wing government fucking things up for them. Perhaps turnout is not the primary issue after all.
Not sure how it is there, but in a few areas you basically lose your right to vote of you don't. Which is fair motivation.
Looks like they mostly pay fines. So let's figure out approximately how much money it will make and sell it to the Republicans as a money making venture!
Teacher: If you don't go to school, you'll be punished!
Student: Oh yea, what's the punishment?
T: Suspension from school
S: Great, glad we're on the same page, see ya never
Because mandatory anything is spun as an attack on our freedoms, and our generally-undereducated masses eat it up.
We could probably spin it around and give a tiny tax break for those who vote. It'll still definitely get attacked though.
Now you're talking!
Yeah. It'll be presented as unnacceptable to us temporarily-embarassed-billionaires.
Make tax refunds and all tax write-offs contingent on proving you voted. >:D
If they can find a way to block student loan forgiveness they'll find a way to stop this. Just need to get it in front of the SC and it'll be squashed.
You still have the freedom to not vote. However you have to go to a polling station and get your name marked off but no-one can force you to write on the piece of paper.
Because the government really doesn't want people to have a say. People are stupid. So let's just have a mock vote with some old wizard math that adds up to who the fuck knows but your guy lost.
Would input from the people who otherwise wouldn't have bothered to show up be useful?
It's a dangerous line of reason you're skirting around there buddy.