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Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn't take long. It's on a weekend so it's not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There's a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn't have happened if they had compulsory voting so there's no denying it's valuable.
"you get a sausage at the sausage sizzle" is going to be my phrase of the week, thank you!
So you're saying we should be Straya?
Changing the voting age is one change, but making voting non compulsory for some voters starts to get messy. It would also be an easy thing for a government to tweak to reduce youth voter turnout by shifting that number around.
Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It's not like there are any significant downsides.
The push is to lower the voting age to 16. Plus, I doubt making it optional until 18 would change many people's minds on whether or not we should lower the voting age.
Urgh. Tell that to ECQ at last month's council elections. Absolute fucking farcical job they did running those elections.