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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Voting should be mandatory, punished by like a $200 fine for non voters.

[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Yes, let's force everyone to vote whether or not they have any clue what's going on or who the candidates are, great idea.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah it sounds fun unless you have any awareness of how this actually worked out when it was used in the past. Fully not okay.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

You mean tests that were designed to ensure that only "the right people" were able to pass them. As well as a grandfather clause that exempted all of those right people (in modern times there would likely be a voter roll purge that would somehow lose most liberal voters while miraculously keeping all of the conservative ones).

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if you assumed the test successfully filtered out an educated voterbase, it would take all but five seconds for X party to cheat their exams, kind of like the "grandfather law" which essentially bypassed jim crow era literacy tests for everyone who was white.

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[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, blamed the disenfranchised voters for not wanting to jump through another hoop. Its a big club, and, sorry, pal; even if you fill out the test, you ain't in it.

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago

InB4 the Non-Voters just start doing the Wilmington Massacre repeatedly.

Check your history books about what happens when the majority of the population has no political voice. Things get ugly.

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