Sure, but how is that worse than them not turning up at all?
> The right to vote includes the right to abstain from voting when one does not care.
And you're free to cast an invalid vote.
> Forced voting sounds like a recipe for bad election results.
Forced voting eliminates some variables from elections, including:
* inequality regarding who can afford to take the time to vote.
* which parties can rile up the most people so that they're actually motivated to vote.
* to some extent, the ability to disenfranchise groups of people who tend to vote against you.
I'm curious as to how it'd make the election results worse.
Sure, but how is that worse than them not turning up at all?
> The right to vote includes the right to abstain from voting when one does not care.
And you're free to cast an invalid vote.
> Forced voting sounds like a recipe for bad election results.
Forced voting eliminates some variables from elections, including:
* inequality regarding who can afford to take the time to vote.
* which parties can rile up the most people so that they're actually motivated to vote.
* to some extent, the ability to disenfranchise groups of people who tend to vote against you.
I'm curious as to how it'd make the election results worse.