The Willing will always do better than the Forced

     This Is my response to my class mate Peyton Kettering's blog called Compulsory Voting.

http://peyton-americangov.blogspot.com/2017/11/compulsory-voting.html

     While mandatory voting may seem like a good thing, there are plenty of holes in your reasoning. The idea definitely comes from a good place, and more people would definitely be unfairly forced to show up, but mandatory voting would only harm our country on multiple fronts. First though, punishments to force people to vote? This would really go against the foundations of our rights. Everyone already has the option to vote how they want and for whom, and there are people who definitely do not want to vote, are uninterested, or simply do not like any candidate and don’t want to take part in such things, what would be the punishment here? If their right to vote, or if they were subjected to fines of jail time it would be unjust!

     There is also the fact that the majority of citizens do not know the facts behind whatever they have chosen to support, and there are already people with little knowledge on the subjects of economy, health care, diplomacy, and politics voting, mandatory voting would only drive the least informed to vote randomly on whoever they think “sounds” better, without knowing who or what these candidates stand for.

     The idea that the less extreme people we see all the time around us, instead of extremists online and in the news, are simply less interested may be a valid point to look into. But forcing people to vote against their will, and then issuing punishments as you wish, is simply wrong. Instead it would be better to push for a way to better teach and show people what they are voting for, and attempt to spark an interest in the nonvoters and better educate them in government, and help them gain a drive to actually learn about the country they live in.  Non-willing voters will not get the country anywhere, and would only hurt our freedoms, instead I think you should push for a way to better educate people who are and will vote, and get people interested.