• huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    Plenty of countries have laws that fine or otherwise punish people that do not vote, afaik this doesn’t tend to lead to better functioning democracies. I think this is a thing where the carrot works better than the stick.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Automatic voter registration based on citizenship. Boom, solves a big percentage of the problem.

      You’d be shocked how much a bit of minor paperwork stops a large percentage of people from doing the bare minimum.