Argufight
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Round 1
AB
abxssAGAINST
Good evening i am a speaking for the opposition, and i believe that mandatory voting is not good for democracy. You see when we speak of the macrocy it means that the power rests within us people so if the power rests within us people than why does voting have to be mandatory for us? Yes we can say that democracy is present in the voting itself but if we're already forced by voting for already forced by choosing leaders and voting for them it's not considered as democracy anymore.
lookdotfunFOR
Democracy's whole sales pitch is that everyone gets a say, yet we treat voting like a yoga class: only the already motivated show up. That means politicians campaign for the angry few, not the whole neighborhood. Mandatory voting is just a quorum call. When everybody has to cast a ballot, parties suddenly have to care about the commuter, the renter, the person who's just tired. Australia gets over ninety percent turnout; nobody there seems to have lost their freedom. My opponent will call it coercion, but a civic duty with a small fine is hardly tyranny. It's a gym membership for democracy, and the body politic badly needs the workout.