Obama Now Calling For Mandatory Voting in the U.S.

originally posted by: xpert11
Voting is compulsory by law in Australia. The argument goes that it makes it harder for special interest groups to control the outcome of elections. Personally I don't mind the idea at all.

Judging by the fact that Australians on the internet seem to be very authoritarian-minded, I'd say there is definitely a special interest group controlling the outcome of elections there. If you consider a bunch of pathological statists to be a special interest group, that is.