Is 'Compulsory Voting' The Answer?

Of course it is. This is the land of the free, son, where soon everything will either be banned or be mandatory. No free will. No choice. You are free...to do what we tell you. Sing the anthem! God bless Amurr'ca!

NPR -

William Galston thinks the key to less polarization in the electorate is compulsory voting. It's the disaffected, the angry, who vote. The Howard Beales of the world. If everyone — including those in the less intense middle — voted, you would get fewer ideologues in office.

The Brookings Institution scholar is among those who are dismayed at the turnout in this country. Those in the wide middle of the spectrum are the ones who abstain from voting, and Galston thinks that's not good. Get more people in the process by making it easier to vote through things like liberalized absentee voting.

It's good for democracy, he says.

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