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aka forcing people to exercise their democratic rights.ROB wrote: Make voting compulsory
Yeah, good luck with that.an outcome that nobody can bitch about.
Jefe wrote:I respectfully disagree with you on this. Compulsary voting is on the face a violation of freedom.
snaark wrote:Forcing people to vote tends to make them find any dumb reason to like or dislike candidates. This forces politicians to engage in trivial arguments, which drowns out healthy political discourse. Remember "children overboard"?
To put it another way: Informed people tend to vote, whereas uninformed people may or may not vote, given the choice. If voting is not compulsory, then at least part of the uniformed proportion of the population won't affect the outcome.
Just my 0.02€
ROB wrote:snaark wrote:Forcing people to vote tends to make them find any dumb reason to like or dislike candidates. This forces politicians to engage in trivial arguments, which drowns out healthy political discourse. Remember "children overboard"?
To put it another way: Informed people tend to vote, whereas uninformed people may or may not vote, given the choice. If voting is not compulsory, then at least part of the uniformed proportion of the population won't affect the outcome.
Just my 0.02€
The arrogance of those statements is quite staggering.
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