| TheRealMafoo said: I am not against the idea that voting be mandatory. It's like taxes. You pay taxes because it's your obligation. Voting as an obligation sounds good to me, provided you can write in anyone you want if you really don't want to vote for anyone on the ballot.
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I am for this iff two changes are made to the process as a whole. First, any election needs to be counted as a national holiday. People need the ability to take off of work to vote. Understandably you can't shut everything down. Still, most places would not be crippled by a couple extra days off a year, and facilities that must be 24/7 can make provisions for their workers.
Secondly, there must be an option to vote for no one. Writing in your own candidate is going the way of the dodo with electronic voting. The message I have often wanted to send is that I took time to show up, and found none of these people remotely acceptable. Toss them all out and start over. I feel it would do a lot of good in getting better candidates on the ballot.
