Honestly as an Australian its baffling to me that peoples “freedoms” take precedent over mandatory voting.
Mandatory voting means one HOUR over three or four YEARS must be exhausted getting your ass to a polling booth and ticking a box. It’s not a big deal. The upsides so significantly outweigh the downsides.
The US registration system is literally designed as a barrier - it’s why we have such pathetic turnout compard to countries with automatic registration.
Yeah that’s a really weird concept. In Serbia you just get mail some time before elections that tell you where to go to vote, and you either go there where they have your name already and you just show them your ID, or you don’t go and then you didn’t vote.
And not voting is voting for what ever happens next
Honestly as an Australian its baffling to me that peoples “freedoms” take precedent over mandatory voting.
Mandatory voting means one HOUR over three or four YEARS must be exhausted getting your ass to a polling booth and ticking a box. It’s not a big deal. The upsides so significantly outweigh the downsides.
The US registration system is literally designed as a barrier - it’s why we have such pathetic turnout compard to countries with automatic registration.
Australia doesn’t have automatic registration either, which is baffling in its own right considering we have mandatory voting.
When you turn 18 you need to register to vote, thereby placing your name on the list for any and all future elections.
Idk how it is in australia but for me the fact that you have to REGISTER to vote is baffeling!
The state knows where you live! It knows everything about you. Why does he not know if you are allowed to vote but that you can be drafted?!?
Thats because non-citizens can be drafted.
Yeah that’s a really weird concept. In Serbia you just get mail some time before elections that tell you where to go to vote, and you either go there where they have your name already and you just show them your ID, or you don’t go and then you didn’t vote.
Not if you’re a billionaire. Billionaires don’t want the people to choose what the government does