• zik@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn’t take long. It’s on a weekend so it’s not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There’s a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn’t have happened if they had compulsory voting so there’s no denying it’s valuable.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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      9 months ago

      It doesn’t take long

      Urgh. Tell that to ECQ at last month’s council elections. Absolute fucking farcical job they did running those elections.

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        9 months ago

        Changing the voting age is one change, but making voting non compulsory for some voters starts to get messy. It would also be an easy thing for a government to tweak to reduce youth voter turnout by shifting that number around.

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        9 months ago

        Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It’s not like there are any significant downsides.

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        9 months ago

        The push is to lower the voting age to 16. Plus, I doubt making it optional until 18 would change many people’s minds on whether or not we should lower the voting age.