Kemp signs restrictive GA voting bill; Dem lawmaker arrested for protesting

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(04-08-2021, 03:53 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: And the reason I have wanted it to be illegal to not vote, in 2016, 58.1% of the registered voters voted(just over 60% in 2020). That means that less than 30% of the registered voters decided who makes the rules in this country

138,000,000 voters out of a population of 249,291,898 of Americans over the age of 18 in 2016. source Less than 28% of 18 and over was enough to put an illiterate buffoon in office for four disastrous years.

This was a concern of mine long before 2016.

Compulsory voting wouldn't really change anything. I'm sure the people who are uninterested in participating in the elections now would be equally uninterested being forced to vote. They'd either cast a blank vote, a null vote or just opt out. 

For the record, I'm kind of ambivalent on compulsory voting. If they had instituted it in 1776 I'd be fine with it, and I'm fine without it now.. The countries that have it usually have a history of framing participation in democratic elections as a duty rather than a right.