Bias_2012 wrote on Nov 16
th, 2022 at 11:18am:
I'll vote when it becomes voluntary and when the AEC sets up a polling booth closer than 38kms to my village, and a PO mailing box as well, it's the same distance away
Compulsory voting is an order from the Libs and Labs, they designed and passed the legislation, it didn't go to referendum, when it should have.
If you won't travel a mere 38km in order to vote once every three years,
then it's obvious you're selfishly happy to avoid undertaking what amounts
to a civic duty. That you apparently care so little for democracy in Australia
is unacceptable, but I'm betting you'll be the first person to whinge when
the party you support is voted out.
And consider this: In the US, eligible voter turnout is around
66% while in
Australia it's around
92% (with compulsory voting). So which electoral
process is more likely to support—at the very least—the ideals of democracy?
As you choose not to vote in elections, you've renounced any legitimate right
to criticize the governing party; either Liberal or Labor.
The government has also made other things compulsory, without any plebiscite.
Do you also object to those? Driver license, passport, Medicare, or Tax File number
for example.
And when you're next picked up by the police for driving without a license, are
you seriously going to tell the police you don't choose to have one, because
it was too difficult to obtain it, or it was unreasonable for the government to
make its possession compulsory?
(BTW, given any reasonable grounds, you can apply to the
AEC for postal vote form. It's not rocket surgery FFS.)
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