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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago

    mandatory vote solves nothing

    It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.

    In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.

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