You are right about public information sessions because what happens is you get those annoying people at the poll booths that give you HOW to vote cards, but obviously those are done in a way that the preferences will favour that person.

People need to be taught that if you actually spend time putting in the 1 to 6 or whatever it is in your area, instead of voting on the top row  the quick way (because you want to save 1minute of your life) then the preference go where you want them not the default party. 

I swear that the major parties deliberately rig the senate voting in subtle ways to give the smaller parties no chance of winning.

For instance, ever wonder why the voting booths are about 0.6m wide, and the senate ballot paper is about 1m wide? People just frustratingly use the top row just to get out of wrestling with all of that paper in such a small voting booth...

Good point. I should look into how much voter fraud happens. 

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On top of this, how would you implement this without some kind of increase in identification requirements.

The last thing needed, is another excuse for "papers, please"

No. Absolutely not. For many, many reasons that I don't feel like going into as this post would take fifteen minutes to write. I will make one point, however, which is that the right not to vote is just as important as the right to vote.

If for no other reason than the people being forced to vote will likely have no idea who/what they're voting for, so they would vote with popular opinion or from a place of deep ignorance, which is worse than not voting at all.

I refuse to even vote on this poll. That is what I think of your sham democracy, vgchartz.

Even if voting was compulsory, most people won't bother to look into the candidates. They just pick a brand and stick with it. Election reform to change the electoral system to AMS would be better. No more FPTP/ Electoral College!

I came here to say "yes" but then I didn't feel like voting in the poll and then I reached nirvana.

Fair enough that you might not know the specifics of American history that well, but such a concept would be unthinkable here for historical (Jim Crow) reasons.

Edit: as an addendum, i think the best thing would be (and it would have to be an amendment, i guess) to change the voting day to be A: a Monday and B: a national holiday, where even essential employed persons (emergency services, old age caregivers, etc) are given a 4-hour window during voting hours in which to vote.

You won't find any info on it.

The government really doesn't prosecute voter fraud becasuse your spenindg tens of thousands of dollars to prosecute one person, and that's assuming you can even bother to track the damn person down.... which in itself is going to be expensive as hell.

It's something rarely if every looked into beyond that.  Usually using the low to nonexistent conviction numbers as a sign that it's not happening.

Though there are a few things that seemed to show a LOT of illegal immigrants were voting... because somehow they were able to get on jury duty, and registered to vote through that... or vice versa, because apparently nobody bothers to check anything when you register to vote.

So... it's an easy to commit crime, that nobody pays attention to, that may or may not be a problem simply due to the fact that it's kind of a pain anyway and it would just make more sense to aim higher up on the chain/discourage voters.

It's why voter registration laws are literally the only thing that makes sense.  Everything else ranges from "who the hell knows!" to "insanely expensive!"