fordy on 21 May 2017
Qwark said:
Not sure if that's a great idea either since most of the time people don't want to bother reading what a party stands for. If you would force voting upon people you can expect a enormous rise of populism and lies during the campaign and a rise of single issue parties. |
On the other hand, when voting is no longer compulsory, you get politicians trying to supress the vote. At least with mandatory voting, if they lost, then there's no denial that they were either not wanted, or they did not convey their message across. There's no talk about elections being held on work days, or polls queueing up for hours, or poor people being asked for the equivalent of a driver's license that they might not have.
