OT: Mandatory Voting

[Slick]

I always vote because I know how valuable this right is compared to the situation in some other countries. People have died for my right to vote and I respect that very much.

I think it would be interesting to take the reverse approach. What if the country said that [______] people no longer will be allowed to vote because of repeated low voter turnout and that the small number who do vote don't make a difference in the final numbers anyway. Fill in the blank with any group you wish. Can you imagine the firestorm that would follow? The very people in the blank above would be outraged and the rest of the country would certainly side with them about being discriminated against. There is no doubt that this would be the reaction. You'd think that if voting was so important to them, the would vote in the first place. Some people just want the right to vote, but don't want to exercise that right.

Slick.