Enforced Voting

[PaddleFoot]

Problem being with that is Americans take things just a little bit to seriously and someone is going to get the stupid idea of doing more than just drawing a dick, then we've got a whole new issue and with our luck rights restrictions for our "OWN PROTECTION" which in the end just piss people off.

Australia has this. It's great.

Basically it means that the government tends to put more effort into representing the needs of all people, rather than only the ones who bother to vote.

Also it is

1) laughable easy to avoid a fine. Some excuses that are accepted (I was busy having sex etc) are quite ridiculous.

2) NOT COMPULSORARY TO VOTE. It is compulsorary to turn up and take a vote card. Whether you vote 1 or draw a dick is up to you.

[DeadLucky]

At the very least, it should be mandatory that businesses provide a window of opportunity for their employees to vote on Election Day.  If they can't give them the whole day off, they should at least be able to give them two or three hours so they can get to their polling place and back.  The last agency I worked had that policy and it was very helpful for me. 

If you are working from the time that polls open until the time that polls close on election day, the business must give you time off to vote. It wasn't just the last agency you worked, its a law. If polls are open two hours before your shift and two hours after, (or maybe it is three?) the business isn't required to give you time off, however, as you have ample time to get your own ass to the polling place if it is a priority for you.

- DeadLucky

[Placid Dingo]

Problem being with that is Americans take things just a little bit to seriously and someone is going to get the stupid idea of doing more than just drawing a dick, then we've got a whole new issue and with our luck rights restrictions for our "OWN PROTECTION" which in the end just piss people off.

Americans and Aussies aren't that different. That arguement is null.

[BadBeast]

I think it would be better, if some Idealist put together a capable, and sensible body of concerned public spirited folks, and started to enforce people into not voting. With intellectual persuasion being the first part of the package. Then, if this didn't work, some mild threats, and firm advice. But there's always one who wants to push that little bit harder than the rest. He may have to be shot, but it will encourage any others with ideas of Voting, to think again.
Once the event is over, if anyone tries to install any kind of Unelected Despotic Interim Administration, your enforcers will have to take responsibility for making sure this doesn't happen. By forming a "Peoples Junta" to hold power, until someone comes along who is more qualified for the jobbetter armed than you are. This means that the whole population are relieved from the burden of having to deal with factionalised Political Power struggles. The whole dynamic of Politics is no longer anything to worry about, so just go back to work, Ok?