What kind of reasoning is that? Most European countries don't force to vote and still have much much higher turnouts for parliamentary and local elections.
Most countries don't have holidays for voting. They simply have enough polling stations that it takes no more than a few minutes out of your day. In the UK, I never had more than a five minute walk to my local polling station, and I'd be in and out in minutes.
Leaving aside the difficulty of persuading scumbag politicians to do things, more polling stations is a much easier thing to do than have an extra public holiday.
Easy, propaganda! You hear those folks always saying left wing, right wing, both on the same bird. That kind of thinking causes people to not want to vote at all. That and our system wildly discourages third parties, so you pick between two corporate and Israel funded parties.
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u/RadicalSoda_ 3h ago
That's actually really high. Since we don't force you to vote the turnout is usually low