[aprdm]

Well in Brazil we do have mandatory voting and our political situation is one of the worst in the world.. Everybody here is trying the opposite - to make voting not mandatory.

The population does not feel represented by the politicians, yet we have to choose one of them every election. Buying votes /manipulating electors in this scenario looks really easy..

[edc117]

Do you understand why making voting not mandatory would not solve your problem? The subset of people that do vote will still vote poorly.

The people in power almost always badly represent the common interest; I hope this changes in my lifetime.