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Australia has mandatory voting. Why not the US?
Because mandatory anything is spun as an attack on our freedoms, and our generally-undereducated masses eat it up.
You still have the freedom to not vote. However you have to go to a polling station and get your name marked off but no-one can force you to write on the piece of paper.
Or there is option of making ballot invalid