Should the US have mandatory voting?

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Absolutely not -the furthest I'd go is automatic voter registration, but beyond that I think people should be allowed to decide whether or not they want to vote.  This isn't Australia -we weren't founded as a prison colony.  Freedom is our central value in a way it never was in other Anglo-settler countries. 

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Absolutely not -the furthest I'd go is automatic voter registration, but beyond that I think people should be allowed to decide whether or not they want to vote.  This isn't Australia -we weren't founded as a prison colony.  Freedom is our central value in a way it never was in other Anglo-settler countries.  

By the way, Australia didn't have compulsory voting till 1924.

Interesting info -and notable that that was the one country where it could become law in a way it never could anywhere else in the 'Anglo-Saxon world'.  New Zealand doesn't have mandatory voting, Canada doesn't have it, the UK doesn't have it, and I can't imagine the United States ever having it either.  

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We don't need low-information voters with barely a high school education being forced to vote in an election for which they know next to nothing. 

According to a study released recently (and here's the article), support for authoritarian rule is strongest among that demographic. 

So, I'm fine with them not voting. 

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We don't need low-information voters with barely a high school education being forced to vote in an election for which they know next to nothing. 

According to a study released recently (and here's the article), support for authoritarian rule is strongest among that demographic. 

So, I'm fine with them not voting. 

Low-information voters sure sounds like a dog whistle.

I can't imagine any demographic that deserves it more.  And besides, they are Trump's base.  They love dog-whistling everybody else.