All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.

It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform

https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting

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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting

Minister slams ‘extremist’ candidates nominating for WA council elections

A West Australian minister has condemned the emergence of “extremist” candidates nominating for the state’s forthcoming council elections,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #candidates #CityofAlbany #CityofBusselton #compulsoryvoting #councillors #localgovernment #Politics #ShireofDerby #waelectoralcommission #wanews
https://www.newsbeep.com/134961/

Yes to this!

https://leftfootforward.org/2025/07/british-democracy-is-broken-and-that-is-why-we-are-launching-the-campaign-for-compulsory-voting/

#UKPolitics #Politics #CompulsoryVoting #Voting

"Mandate voting. Force people to take care of themselves and each other rather than they bow down then whimper off to take it like the sniveling minions we currently are."

Blog comment by The Killer White T-Cell

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/03/09/who-will-lead-the-spill-against-chris-luxon/#comment-914895

Where is this obsession with mandatory voting coming from? It's a purely symbolic change with no practical effect.

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#MandatoryVoting #CompulsoryVoting

The non-voting % of electorates in modern democracies is seriously concerning...
* Just 60% or so in the UK 2024
* Mid-low 50's routinely in US
Presidential elections
NZ is actually pretty impressive at mid-high 70's; Australia has compulsory voting.

I think there's a growing case for #compulsoryvoting #nzpol

Maybe #Straya need to regime change the #USA and install a real democracy?

#PreferentialVoting aka #RankedChoiceBallots

#Voting on a Saturday, with a polling place within walking distance for most people, easy to #vote in advance, and not too tricky to vote by post

and an independent federal body to draw electorate (district) boundaries, run polling places, and run the counting - like our #AEC https://www.aec.gov.au/

The Yanks can skip the #CompulsoryVoting if they insist. But it is good for calming politics no need for the "bring out the vote" intensity with "or the opposition will eat your kids" madness. And it makes some fraud even harder to do - like voter impersonation or dead people voting - if everybody votes in every election.

#Australian #democracy is not perfect, but i think we're probably close to the "least-broken"?

Our worst problem is #mining company influence, to parties and the public
🎶you're gonna get whacked, by the mining tax🎶

The expanding #Green and #Teal #CrossBench is providing some push back on the #mining lobby's environmental bullshit.

But we're still getting ripped off, if the government says we "can't afford" something, they're lying. We have an entire continent full of almost every mineral the world wants to buy, we just need to #tax it properly or nationalise it, not let a few individuals hoard all the profits.

But if we went full محمد مصدق or #Gough #Whitlam … then our friends the USA might decide we'd picked the wrong government and change it for us?

I don't necessarily want to change their government, I want to change how they elect it.

a #TwoPartyState is not really any better than a #OnePartyState

cc other mes @kirt @kirt @kirt

#AUKUS #Teals #GoughWhitlam #ClivePalmer #GinaReinheart #GinaRinehart #GautamAdani
#محمدمصدق