OT: Mandatory Voting

[Abdiel]

And they would be right. (sorry bout the pun =)

If they couldn't care less, or loved the incumbent so much, or for whatever else reason they didn't want to turn up to the polls, it's their fundamental right. Any government that turns around to try to change this is asking for trouble from all sides.

Forcing at least a blank form is well, ambiguous. Is the government now starting to flex its muscles, and how far would it go? The next step of filling those blank forms for you might not be too far off. But pretending you were there and filling it in for you totally is another different matter, which is why people may choose not to turn up.

Then again, we are habitual animals. Those people in countries with mandatory show-up-or-____ systems are probably used to it, that, or it might be the next change in the pipeline.

But still, don't take away that right not to show up, not to care, not to bother about what somebody else thinks I think.

Abd.