BREAKING: President Obama Wants To Propose 'Mandatory Voting.' It would change everything.

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24. I like the idea,

and it makes sense to do something like that considering how it is mandatory to fill out the Census every 10 years. Not only that, but it might spur people to get better-informed about the issues and to not take for granted what people died for in the past. I hope they'll ditch the ID laws and other restrictions before they make mandatory voting a thing here, though. With the idea of mandatory voting, there's also going to be a glaring political risk; the GOP and friends would probably oppose it (for obvious reasons), and then paint it as another attack on "freedom". Another move that might result in higher turnout (albeit not as high as with mandatory voting) and is less politically-risky would be to set aside a holiday or two dedicated to voting.