Taylor Swift encouraged her 112 million Instagram followers to register to vote

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SpokenTruth said:

Immersiveunreality said:

In Belgium people need to go vote or get fined heavily and that results in a lot of people just voting on whatever propaganda the media trows at them, i am sure that also happens over there but maybe you guys have a lesser percentage of those kind of voters.

Proper neutral politicial education would be handy but such a thing could be easily corrupted sadly.

Being fined for not voting is a bit much.  What we should do is register all citizens by default and vote on the weekend (rather than Tuesday).

You do realize many people work on weekends right? But one may argue that some people go and vote to get out of work.

Imagine if it was a national holiday. I can see a lot of people doing fun things on that day instead of voting. It's their day off, they may not want to sit in a line to vote. Or take off Monday as well and make a four day weekend or something.