Should voting be manditory?

[Stringer_Bell]

Unless there was a "none of the above" vote in an election, all a law would do is give false legitmacy to the ty way our political system works. We don't have many good candidates in either party.

[AussieFanKurt]

If it happens in australia then no its not the right thing for a superior country like the usa to do

I hope you're trolling or you're fitting a perfect stereotype of an American thinking they are best at everything

[GSH]

I think we should have negative votes available. e.g., I don't like anyone, so I vote for no one, but I hate Candidate X most, so I give him a negative vote and take down his count of total votes by one. Of course you could only do either a positive vote or a negative vote.

That's one of the best ideas I've ever heard. "I don't care who actually wins, but I definitely want to cancel out one vote for that guy."

Think what it would do to the two-party system. Some of the third parties might actually have a chance.

The problem is that for something like that to be made law, it would have to be voted on by the very people who it would target. I think that's the real loophole in our whole system. Any efforts to reform Congress have to be approved by Congress. I always picture a few founding fathers scratching their heads and saying, "Oh, yeah... didn't think about that."