Mandatory Voting in the United States?

[Marokai Backbeat]

I've supported compulsory voting for a long time, but I recognize that will never happen here. Our efforts at increasing electoral awareness and making voting accessible are utterly pathetic, regardless.

[Marokai Backbeat]

We're not even playing "small ball," which is really my frustration.

Almost no states have really made any serious effort at busting elections and voting access wide open, and anywhere even the smallest efforts have been made, half the time they're just overturned the next time the state legislature flips Republican. Only, what, three states have had same-day registration? And those have come under attack by GOP Governors. We have no automatic voter registration, and even online registration is only available in a handful (!) of states. There's no national standardization for voting times, voting rights for criminals, early voting access, number of employees, number of ballot box locations, or nearly anything else. Absolutely no efforts have been made on the federal level whatsoever. Added to that, we have no electoral watchdog agency of any weight to bring attention to any of this.

For being the country that has delusions of bringing democracy to the rest of the world, our own democratic efforts at home are genuinely embarrassing.