keepcarrot [she/her]

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Cake day: March 3rd, 2021

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  • We have it in Australia, but also have ranked preferential voting and stuff. Some people don’t vote and cop the $40 fine (which is easy enough to get out of), some people send in empty ballots. Pretty much every primary school becomes a ballot centre for a day, as well as many churches and community centres, so it’s not particularly omerous.

    It probably improves state legitimacy if elections have a 95% turnout rate and is very cheap to implement without really changing the structure of parliament or the political class.

    If you want those sorts of numbers without compulsory voting, you have to make voting easy to do, with accessible politicians from the local community, and feel like your choice in candidate is significant and impactful.

    (Also, it’s compulsory presence at a ballot centre, the votes are sealed and anonymous)