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I was surprised when you decided to be adversarial on the topic, especially when you don't have any first hand experience of the compulsory education system in Australia nor of its democratic processes.Compulsory voting does not ensure good decisions. Should you not also have compulsory education?
Before enforcing voting should there not be a quiz to prove you are an informed voter and have educated yourself on the complex issues or at the very least have an idea how it works? For example what retention of judges means? Or what that job is?
Or are you ok that people who have no idea what they are doing vote for the famous person whom they have seen on TV?
How do you have enough poll workers to process all these new voters? Do you make that mandatory service and draft people like you do for a jury?
As someone who was in charge of voting here for over 20 years I have a slew of opinions on this and the basic capabilities of the voter. I almost did not respond to you on this because I feel this is a rabbit hole we can go down on a chicken forum but I'm a little cranky this morning so here it is.