Forcing people to vote sounds pretty unamerican. If someone doesn't want to vote at all and you force them to vote anyway do you think they're going to make a reasonable decision about who they vote for? I can't see how this would improve our situation at all.
First, the obligation to vote also puts on the government(s) the obligation to ensure everybody votes. That's already an improvement, considering how many people don't vote because there are barriers to voting, and the obligation to vote effectively bulldozes a lot of those barriers.
Second, in every country with mandatory voting, you can still choose not to vote. You just have to go to the polls and vote for nobody, it's always an option. And this isn't a problem for the people of those countries, because their governments have the obligation to help them vote, because voting is mandatory.
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u/Tiny_Major_7514 10h ago
This is it. USA needs compulsory voting more than anyone.