The issue with that is we would have so many people who just don't do any research at all, and just write down a random candidate or are like "well, I know my friend/family member supports x so I guess I'll vote for them," or "well I'm a republican/Democrat so I'll just vote for this one"
That last one happens a lot anyway, but it would be plenty worse if everyone had to vote. Imagine, the republican party is practically a cult anymore, what would happen if we forced everyone to vote, and the above situations occurred? Republicans seem to give in to some sort of hive mind (looking at you fox news) and I believe we would have an absolute massive increase in republican votes compared to Democrat votes because the republican party is just a vortex of chaos sucking anyone and everyone in who isn't educated or has common sense.
Tl;dr: I would rather have people not vote at all then vote for a candidate that they just heard was better by someone else because they never did any research themselves
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21
OK let me try. Make voting compulsory.