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Originally Posted by Biker Biggles
Indeed, or you can spoil your ballot if you feel strongly about it which would be a political statement too but mandatory voting would be illiberal in my view. There is already too much authoritarianism in the world.
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It's a tough call but to protect against authoritarianism you need a functioning democracy and if only 1 in 5 people are voting it's not functioning as it should.
We live in a society which protects us, heals us, supports us when we can't work and all it asks of us is that we vote (and obey its laws of course).