What you fail to realise is that removing compulsory voting opens a whole new door of problems, such as imposing rules/tricks that allow one particular side to not vote. Things such as removing ballot stations in poorer areas, so they have to queue up for longer, perhaps hours! What about sending out flyers saying that one side votes one day and the other side votes the day after the election? Voter suppression? Poll tax?

Don't think it will happen? Those examples have already happened in the US.

No, compulsory voting is DEFINITELY preferred, but if you don't want to vote, just donkey vote. It's still much better than the latter.

I believe in voluntary voting, people should vote only if they want to vote. I also believe imposing a poll tax would be a great idea.

Under Australia's system this is already a thing. You don't actually have to make a vote, you simply have to have your name ticked off the roll.

A poll tax is a terrible idea and a step away from fascism, if you think disenfranchising the poor is a great idea I honestly don't think any logical argument will get through to you.

Every time I see the thread title I think someone ate McDonald's and shit their pants.

Close enough, current PM Scott Morrison shit his pants at a McDonalds in 1997 following his team's loss in the rugby grand final. The Maccas in question even has plaques set up to commemorate it now.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/engadine-maccas-plaque-doo-doo-ass/

Lol wow that's the best memorial I've ever seen.  Thought it was a guy with last name McDonald that shit his pants a lot won PM.  Funny that McDonald's allowed that plaque on their lot.  Hopefully there is a historical marker sign on the side of road pointing to the plaque.

Compulsory voting isn't the issue, the inconvenience of voting is. There got to be a better way that having to travel to some voting place or having to send a letter. There should be either an online opportunity or someone coming to you and collecting the vote. For example, having people who go to work places and then collect the votes weeks before the election.

Online can be tampered with, and generally doesn't leave a paper trail compared to...paper.

Voting booths provide a sense of isolation and security when filling one's ballot out, as opposed to say...a workplace, where the AEC doesn't keep watch, and employers or other employees could pressure the voter. That's why there are laws stating that political ads and volunteers must remain x metres away from an AEC voting booth.

Yes, compulsory voting can be inconvenient, but there is a degree of leniency here, because everyone is expected to do it. It certainly beats the alternatives, that are open to voter suppression, or vote tampering.

The question is...did Morrison do it as a result of Cronulla's loss, or because of a bad Big Mac or something?

These are the questions that our media should be asking!

Online voting is highly likely to happen because anyone can claim to be anyone online as is shown with scammer/cat fish committing fraud and identity thefts.