Should we make voting mandatory?

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Compulsory voting is fantastic.  Note that it doesn't necessarily produce results beneficial to the left (see Australia's federal election last year - total disaster), but when you live in a place where pretty much everybody votes, you sort of can't see how it would be a controversial idea at all.  And it certainly isn't one in Australia.

It is regretful to me that in a country where so many people are continuously denied the right to vote due to lack of an accepted ID or because of a prior criminal history, re-enforced by a strong history of voter suppression, people would go on and on about the sacred right to 'not vote.'

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Note that it doesn't necessarily produce results beneficial to the left

That's a good thing. I'm not trying to tip any elections here. I just think it would be good for a country it actually took a majority to win.

I agree, too.  I only say that in case anyone might have assumed otherwise.