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In Belgium and Australia (and a few others) it is not.

If you have no opinion, just cast a blank vote. It costs less effort than filing taxes. The benefit of more representative representation is substantial.

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People who choose not to vote, or can't be bothered voting, get the results they deserve. For a true democracy, the voting population has to be consistent across the board, and only compulsory voting can give this a fair chance of happening. You can't legitimately say "I didn't vote for this" if you didn't vote for anything at all.



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As long as you don't mind the result being randomised by people just making an arbitrary choice, or worse, picking the most objectionable candidate.


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choose

Easy to remember since it rhymes with lose, booze, cruise and news.


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Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
In Belgium and Australia (and a few others) it is not.

If you have no opinion, just cast a blank vote. It costs less effort than filing taxes. The benefit of more representative representation is substantial.
In Australia there's a squabble over who goes at top of the ballot because people who don't want to vote just tick the top one. KN Logic 🙄

Nothing gets a control freaks panties wet like forcing people to do what they don't want to.


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Ladies and gents - the news;
divegeester cannot spell choose
He spelt it C H O S E
That's rather messy.
Perhaps he's been on the booze.

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Originally posted by @wajoma
In Australia there's a squabble over who goes at top of the ballot because people who don't want to vote just tick the top one. KN Logic 🙄

Nothing gets a control freaks panties wet like forcing people to do what they don't want to.
If there is a "vote for none" option, why do they not settle the argument by putting that first? I assume it's not because they're worried about "None of the below" actually winning.



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All in fun dive, all in fun.