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CMV: Compulsory voting is anti-democratic

A lot of people seem to just hate others who don't vote. They advocate for compulsory voting. I fail to see a reason for this, other than some self-righteous view of democracy and people-power.

I've seen some people say that compulsory voting is necessary for a democracy because a democracy is "rule of the people" and unless 100% of the people vote, it ain't a rule of the people. However, this view of democracy is problematic from 3 perspectives:

1. People who don't vote essentially vote, "I don't give an f, go do what you want." By compulsory voting, you're taking away that vote. To this, some have defended that in some countries, there exists an option "neither." I fail to see any reason why people should be forced to vote "neither" when they can simply choose not to vote. Some other people have defended that you don't have a choice to not care about others, and that's callous. Well, that's your moral judgement, you cannot force it on others.

2. You may want to reevaluate why we need a democracy in the first place. Why is democracy better than other forms of government? Why should people have the power? One of the reasons is that we don't like being told what to do, without sufficient justification. We don't like being ruled upon. When you say the country should have compulsory voting, you're violating that individual sense of agency, defeating the point of democracy. 

3. There's a fine line between democracy, mob rule, and tyranny of the majority. Why do you think that just because a majority of people think so, an indifferent minority should be threatened with state force to vote?
gpt
Compulsory voting does one good thing you miss, it makes it so everyone has the opportunity to vote. Essentially, if everyone is legally required to vote thr government and businesses are forced to make sure everyone has time off on voting days and forces the government to make sure everyone can get to a voting station or can vote in some other way. Essentially it helps with voter suppression.