That’s true, you can require them to vote, but you can’t require them to be informed.
Bad news though. Almost none of today’s voters are properly informed either.
And this is the real heart of the problem. I would love to see a ban on all political advertising while providing an easily accessible source to read the policies of each party. Without the branding and cults of personality we could have a system that actually makes decision based on policy
I’m gonna be downvoted for this but I’m in favor of standardized “political literacy” tests for everyone who wants to vote. People should have to answer questions regarding what policies their candidates support, and the candidates would have to tell everyone what to put.
But at least with volunteer voting, you get some correlation between someone being informed and their likelihood of voting.
I disagree. You would see a correlation between those people who think they are informed and those who vote.
And unfortunately, people who are smart enough to know they aren’t informed are probably the ones who should be voting. Forcing them to do so will cause some portion to read.
People who are SURE they are informed are either the very well informed, or the idiots who don’t know any better, but who will happily vote for whoever they are told.