In Germany we only vote on Sundays and it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. We're still lucky when more than two thirds vote. People are in general are lazy and stupid.

as long as they vote along party lines more than according to what the politicians do, number of votes does not improve this.

Sorry but mandatory vote solves nothing. You'll still have a lot of people alienate about politics and now they had to vote and they'll make their choices like a popularity contest.

You can vote for whichever politician you like, so long as it's AIPAC approved.

Unfortunately, I think it's exactly the opposite. They don't have to do anything that people want to vote for them anyway.

That would be Australia. We are less extreme than the US but still succumb to fear tactics. We did manage to get marriage equality despite a conservative government so there's that.

Make voting the last part of doing your taxes. You get $5 for voting. The person is already verified when submitting, piggyback on that process.

Isn't that how it works in Australia?