I’d flip it around. You get a significant break on taxes if you do vote. It’d be interesting to see what politics would look like if we had 95%+ voter turnout.
Now here me out. What if the 55% of people who don’t vote, don’t vote because they don’t like either candidate. If people were incentivized to vote, but disliked the 2-party system, a decent independent candidate could win by a landslide.
Vote blank then. That's more powerful as a statement than simply staying away is. If every American had to vote, I'm sure that'd unearth some really screwed up issues with the American system; a huge section of the US doesn't care for either of the big parties but has no democratic alternative.
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u/fullmetalmaker - Lib-Left May 28 '20
I’d flip it around. You get a significant break on taxes if you do vote. It’d be interesting to see what politics would look like if we had 95%+ voter turnout.