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by sebazzz 1347 days ago
> compulsory voting

No. If you don't vote and you country gets destroyed by the politicians you don't get to complain - I agree on that part.

However, if you are required to vote, also people will vote which don't inform themselves very well. Populists will take their votes happily, and populists are often not an improvement for the state of a country.