• thinkyfish@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Mandatory voting. In Australia you have to pay a fee if you don’t want to vote. They seem to like it because it keeps the extremes out.

    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Right. The problem is that the people who benefit from the way things are happen to be the same ones who can pass the laws necessary to change voting to be mandatory. It’s not happening anytime soon.