What would happen if voting were made compulsory?

[dahunan]

Nowhere was intelligence mentioned as a requirement. In fact, the entire premise of the topic is quite the opposite. No need to try and spin this around, you can just go in there and randomly mark names.

lol

or let diebold do it for us?
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab.

 

[ShawnD1]

So do you want representatives that represent the interests of the smartest, most powerful 10% of our society, or representatives that represent 100% of our society? Sounds like you are advocating the former.

Of course I advocate the former. As someone who has never missed an election, I'll gladly take 2 or 3 votes for myself. If you don't want to vote, that's fantastic. Other people not voting means my vote is worth more.

If only half the people vote, that means I get 2 votes!
-Stephen Colbert

 

[piasabird]

You should have to be about 30 before you can vote.

 

[joebloggs10]

The smart 10% will vote no matter what, so that's the same.

Fallacious reasoning, not all "smart" people vote. In fact, if you try to make a case that not voting automatically eliminates you from being smart I could make an equally compelling case that those who vote are too stupid to have realized that noone hold up the campaign promises they make, a single vote doesn't count, and the masses who do vote and are complete imbeciles change their minds so often as to completely invalidate anything that any elected official actually tries to accomplish thus making any hope of real progress a pipe dream.

 

[soulcougher73]

I would love for everyone to have to vote but in its current state that would be a bad idea. Unless we made everyone take a pre-vote test to make sure they are not completely retared on the issues being voted on. Maybe some kind of monitary penelty to get people to stay up on current events in politics.

But even that sounds retarded. I guess keeping it volunetary is the best way to go.

 

[Atreus21]

I would not vote.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Remove the electoral college if you want more people to vote.
Myself and a lot of other people I know don't vote because our vote really doesn't matter.