The Importance Of Compulsory Voting

The United States of America are among the lowest amount of voter participation. Some people think the answer is compulsory voting, but is that the right idea? No, Americans should not be required to vote because it goes against our rights and is time consuming, it decreases voter satisfaction, and it increases the amount of uninformed voters. Compulsory voting may be the answer to other countries problems, but not the US.

Americans should not be required to vote because it goes against our rights and it is time consuming. Making people vote is ruining our already weak name of the "Land of the Free". We have many laws, regulations, and rules, the last thing we need is for our people to lose even more of their freedom. We have our right to vote, and it is our choice, as soon as it becomes an obligation it is no longer a right, and restrains us. Not only do we lose our rights, we lose our time. Compulsory voting would make many people have to make their already busy schedules even busier. Young …show more content…
The punishments would create angry citizens, and make people annoyed if they have to look over the punishments. Countries that have compulsory voting have a low voter satisfaction rate. Italy has public punishments, compulsory voting, and a very low voter satisfaction rate. The US has low voter turnout, but very high voter satisfaction. (Doc D) The only way to enforce compulsory voting is to have punishments that are worse than a small fine, which causes too many problems, and lowers satisfaction. People would have the trouble of picking what age people could stop voting, or whether it is until death, this would make it unfair to some people no matter what. (Doc A) If people at a certain age can stop, then people would get angry that other people don't have to vote, and if it is until death, people may have trouble getting to vote,which would create very low