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Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised' (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn't take long. It's on a weekend so it's not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There's a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn't have happened if they had compulsory voting so there's no denying it's valuable.

[–] BlitzoTheOisSilent 2 points 10 months ago

"you get a sausage at the sausage sizzle" is going to be my phrase of the week, thank you!

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 1 points 10 months ago

So you're saying we should be Straya?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It doesn’t take long

Urgh. Tell that to ECQ at last month's council elections. Absolute fucking farcical job they did running those elections.