• pivot_root
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    2 days ago

    Personally I am in favour of mandatory voting, with the caveat that the bottom of the ballot should have a “none of the above” option.

    If the difference was only 20% and the result of an election wasn’t determined by a metaphorical a coin flip, I would agree.

    With the way it is right now, doubling the voting pool using uneducated or apathetic voters turns the entire thing into a game of exploiting psychological biases into creating uninformed votes. That also happens to already be the GOP’s specialty.

    It’s bad now, but that could make it even worse.