Why voting should be compulsory like it is in Australia - Yorkshire Post Letters
I agree with Jayne Dowle about the apathy around voting but would go further. I think voting should be compulsory as it is in Australia and that everyone on the electoral register is automatically registered and that voting should be extended to 16-year-olds.
Not voting allows minority extremist parties to be elected.
It’s disrespectful to all the people who died so we can vote to change a government. Just look at Russia and its recent so- called election.
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It’s also laziness. How much effort does it take to get to a polling booth?
It is not pointless voting but a right and a duty, there are many good people in the Houses of Parliament, we should not judge everyone by the likes of Boris Johnson and Rees-Mogg.
It certainly needs reforms. First past the post is outdated and not truly representative.
Use it or one day you will lose it.
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