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Originally Posted by GGG
Not voting sends no message at all. It just further enforces the targeted GOTV of partisans.
You may have inadvertently made a good argument for mandatory voting. We want a less partisan electorate so by forcing people who don't care to vote you may get a less partisan voter base and instead of GOTV and engagement wining elections you have to argue ideals.
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Forcing people to vote for a party would just be straight up wrong. If I was forced to vote in every election, many of my votes would be write in joke candidates or fringe parties with no hope of winning. There's been multiple elections where all of the parties running absolutely disgust me. The last one was a great example.