The best thing about Compulsory Voting was that a Right-Wing politician was scared he would loose the election if The Workers voted and his advisors told him that the majority of his supporters didn’t vote.
He reasoned that if it was compulsory, The Silent Majority would come out and vote for him in a landslide.
It was a landslide; it turns out that his advisors overestimated how many supporters he had and he was voted out.
Also see last election, the Right-Wing media echo chamber and the coalition.
This is a bit like the opv vs fpv back and forth at the state level. Party in government thinks they can get a benefit from switching but it invariably backfires.
The first time I voted, I got reeeeal fucking stoned and my year 7 teacher was working for the greens, she looked at me and with the biggest grin ever said " Well, I know who yoooou’re voting for" laughed and walked off.
She was a cool teacher.
Wow, this should be celebrated, held up as one of the crowning achievements of Australian democracy and political life. It’s a shame that I’m learning of this here on Lemmy.
Yeah I’m shocked that the only reason I saw it is that the Facebook algorithm randomly decided to show me stuff from the Labor Party. They’re the only people I’ve seen mention this.
