Obamacare written to deceive the public.

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Rhythm, the reason why we have mandatory voting isn't to force people to make a decision. If a person goes to a polling booth, and really doesn't want to cast their vote, they're perfectly entitled to leave the ballot paper blank and put it in the ballot box. Of course, jurors can't do that - they must make a valid decision. But the fact is, even with very high informal votes going to around 5%, we have around 90% of registered voters casting valid ballots at elections. Once we get down around 85% we consider that very low participation.

To me, and to most Australians, we don't understand how countries with optional voting can claim to be a real democracy. No genuinely valid democracy is based on a vote by only 35% of the population.