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[โ€“] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You can (and should) provide fair access to voting without making it mandatory. Most people would probably submit a valid vote anyway, there's a lot of no/low information voters already and refusing to vote, for example to boycott the election or for whatever other reason is also a valid political stance. Plus I'm not a fan of any financial penalties because they're basically an extra civil rights subscription for the wealthy who can afford to pay the fines, while a poor person who doesn't make it to the polling booth gets disproportionately screwed.

[โ€“] Mniot@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

I don't have a problem with rich people choosing not to vote.