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Originally Posted by pip08456
Compulsory voting is a pipedream that should be avoided at all costs. What are you going to do if they don't? Drag them to the polling station? Are you going to watch while they place their cross? What if they spoil their paper?
Voting is a right that each and every person (legally) in this country has, they also have the right not to vote if they so wish.
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I suggested a long time ago that voting papers should have a box marked "I do not wish to vote for any of the above parties/options".
If in the present situation voter turnout is low then the government tend to assume that it is voter apathy and do nothing.
If however all voters go out and vote by ticking the box of their choice and people tick the "no vote" box the government does not have that excuse.
Indeed they have a duty to find out why voters found the choice of parties unacceptable or not worth voting for.
It's a way for unhappy voters to provide feedback to the parties giving parties the opportunity to re-examine the policies that voters do not want to vote for.
I'll bet no-one from government asks Leave voters why they voted to Leave and thus the matter remains unresolved.
If nothing changes and we have a second referendum more people may vote but because matters are unresolved and unaddressed the result could be still the same.