forcing people to vote goes against democracy.
if the people who don't vote bitch about our country's policies....then they are just kidding themselves.
all scientific data and polling statistics are proven to be representative of our large population, even if it is only a small amount(because people vote from every region, every age, every ethnicity, every religion) so even if more people voted...it would not change that much.
before we debate whether or not more people should vote....we should get rid of the electoral system or divide them up by proportional electoral votes.
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Originally Posted by fizzy94
i think it should be mandatory. of course, you can't force our generation to care or even know about the elections, but that's because we've been brought up with basically total political apathy. on the other hand, if there were to be mandatory voting laws, i could see future generations being raised with more of an emphasis on their political interests.
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how would you even force people to vote though?
making a law penalizing them for not voting would be against the constitution.