Should the US adopt mandatory voting similar to Australia?

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I want fewer people voting - shillelaghhugger 2024-03-21 15:10:13
- The only people who should be allowed to vote are ... - Barney68 2024-03-23 09:41:32
- Not necessarily true... - Jimbo Irish 2024-03-21 15:53:19
  - It's not a comparison. - Revue Party 2024-03-21 17:23:09
    - Your opinion * - Jimbo Irish 2024-03-22 13:17:00
      - Do we get to consider past Republican presidents as 'evil'? - Kali4niaND 2024-03-22 13:39:27
      - I see a big difference between incompetent... - Revue Party 2024-03-22 13:35:52
    - The Catholic Church calls abortion intrinsically evil. - jfs86 2024-03-22 07:37:51
      - what does the Church say about the death penalty? - jt 2024-03-22 10:54:14
        11 people were executed in the US in 2021. - Otter 2024-03-22 11:36:20
        I agree wholeheartedly.... - Marine Domer 2024-03-22 15:53:15
        I think that we're in the same boat - jt 2024-03-22 12:31:13
        There's a difference in policy debates as well - shillelaghhugger 2024-03-22 15:26:17
        It is partly the sincerity argument. - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-23 08:39:45
        'Apparently' is doing a lot of work in your last sentence - El Kabong 2024-03-23 18:13:50
      - The "Biden is evil" falls flat, sorry. - Revue Party 2024-03-22 10:22:41
        Being for or against the first and second amendment is - jfs86 2024-03-22 15:10:54
      - I think your categoric and monolithic characterization - ufl 2024-03-22 08:40:50
        There have been prior discussions here about - jfs86 2024-03-22 15:36:22
        So the dubious stuff you mention in paragraph two - ufl 2024-03-22 18:12:49
        Here is Bill Press' op-ed on repealing second amendment. - Jfs86 2024-03-23 07:05:48
        I got the point you were trying to make the first time - ufl 2024-03-23 08:38:08
        So, a woman somewhere, makes a decision you don’t know - The Holtz Room 2024-03-22 17:15:09
        Maybe the jf in the handle stands for Jerry Falwell. * - Slotts 2024-03-22 09:33:17
        Yeah, that's helpful. Good grief some people on this.... - Marine Domer 2024-03-22 15:44:56
        Yeah, that's me, because I post so much on here. * - Slotts 2024-03-22 16:02:22
        It was more of a general comment.... - Marine Domer 2024-03-22 16:38:53
        What part of my comments led you to wonder if I am - jfs86 2024-03-22 15:17:22
        It was a freaking joke. * - Slotts 2024-03-22 16:03:02
        hopefully not Falwell, jr - jt 2024-03-22 12:32:12
No, because - Barrister 2024-03-21 13:03:24
nearly half of Americans are of below average intelligence - AIRBORNEIRISH 2024-03-21 11:48:19
- Why stop there? How about a psychological evaluation? * - ocnd 2024-03-22 13:32:15
- Mandatory cardio first. - EricCartman 2024-03-21 13:43:58
  - If you skip leg day, they pull your card. - Revue Party 2024-03-21 13:46:52
    - Do you even lift brah? * - The Holtz Room 2024-03-21 14:20:51
      - Climb the rope and ring the bell for your candidate. * - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-21 15:24:29
- Think about how stupid the average person is... - El Kabong 2024-03-21 13:23:52
- Yeah, great idea, like a literacy test - sprack 2024-03-21 12:59:31
- I'd use the same basic test I used on a few candidates. - Revue Party 2024-03-21 12:56:42
- But certainly half of all Amercians - drmurray 2024-03-21 12:49:03
  - You're all right - sprack 2024-03-21 13:00:17
- I reckon it's exactly half. * - IrishJosh24 2024-03-21 12:25:00
  - I reckon it's not - manofdillon 2024-03-21 13:06:47
    - The way IQ is measured and defined - fontoknow 2024-03-21 15:07:43
      - Well you just stole my pedant of the day award. - manofdillon 2024-03-21 17:17:23
    - Ha, well deserved. * - IrishJosh24 2024-03-21 13:08:01
- I'll take tautologies for $200, Alex * - fontoknow 2024-03-21 12:09:06
  - With tautologies you cannot go wrong * - airborneirish 2024-03-21 15:15:55
Our grandchildren will pass mandatory emoticon use. - mkovac 2024-03-21 11:16:07
- We called them emoticons - ravenium 2024-03-21 12:37:09
  - I wrote menus in extended ASCII using Edlin - wcnitz 2024-03-22 08:48:44
This is a standard essay question for Intro to American Govt - fontoknow 2024-03-21 09:52:25
No. * - G.K.Chesterton 2024-03-20 14:57:23
No. I'm more than OK with uninterested people not voting * - sprack 2024-03-20 14:20:33
- Primary voters are very interested. Are you happy with - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-20 20:55:28
  - You can't have mandatory voting in primaries * - sprack 2024-03-21 10:41:05
    - That was very much not the point. * - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-21 12:04:23
      - OK, so? I don't believe in mandatory voting - sprack 2024-03-21 12:57:33
- Agreeance * - Giggity_Giggity 2024-03-20 17:44:06
No, but we should get more people interested in doing so - El Kabong 2024-03-20 14:07:58
- I'd be very supportive of primary reform. - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-20 20:58:17
  - I think all primaries should be open. - BottleofRed 2024-03-20 22:12:14
    - How do you prevent spiking primaries? - ravenium 2024-03-21 13:54:04
We won't. Ever. - Revue Party 2024-03-20 13:59:40
The thinking being that we want people who can't be bothered - FL_Irish 2024-03-20 13:55:41
- That we want to best represent the will of the people. - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-20 14:18:22
  - Has it worked well in Peru also? * - enginerd194 2024-03-20 15:12:13
    - Which country are we more like? * - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-20 20:40:55
      - I don't think we're close enough to either for an assertion * - enginerd194 2024-03-21 12:32:52
        A developed Anglo ally vs developing non-Anglo country... - BigBadBrewer 2024-03-23 08:35:52
  - The will of the people who don’t show up is that they… - FL_Irish 2024-03-20 15:02:26