careful lol, it’s 10 years old. sep 18, 2014. not sure if that was a typo or an exaggeration but it is technically a mistruth.

https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-

In Germany we only vote on Sundays and it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. We're still lucky when more than two thirds vote. People are in general are lazy and stupid.

Sorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You'll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they'll make their choices like a popularity contest.

You can vote for whichever politician you like, so long as it's AIPAC approved.

as long as they vote along party lines more than according to what the politicians do, number of votes does not improve this.

Unfortunately, I think it's exactly the opposite. They don't have to do anything that people want to vote for them anyway.

Make voting the last part of doing your taxes. You get $5 for voting. The person is already verified when submitting, piggyback on that process.