Compulsory Voting - How much time in prison should people get for "Failure To Vote"

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33. An older Republican friend of mine admits he's not a guy that believes everyone should vote.

I know where he's coming from. He believes that if voters were really educated, they would vote Republican. He's really pretty moderate and the last time I talked to him, he was disgusted by the whole Bundy thing.

I actually agree that true idiots shouldn't vote but that would hurt their side more than us if it could be enforced somehow. One example I have is a friend of mine that was convinced to vote for Nader in I guess it must have been 2000? Anyway, he gets to the polling booth here in Idaho and discovers Nader is not on the ballot. He tells me he actually went over to the poll workers and asked them, why isn't Nader on here? The way he told it and knowing him, he was probably pretty confrontational about it, as if it was some kind of conspiracy or something! How could you have been informed in any way about Nader and not have known that his getting on the ballot in all 50 states was a big issue? You couldn't. For that to be a surprise to him makes him the poster boy for low information voters! That can only be topped by the old lady in Minnesota that raised hell about Michelle Bachmann not being on the ballot when she wasn't voting in her district!

You'd have a hard time convincing me that mandatory voting would always be a good thing.