Max J., Newcastle
Having voted in the 2024 local NSW elections today (as of writing, 14th September 2024), I can say with some certainty that the compulsory voting system in this country is an antique. It has done little to improve political engagement, in fact, it has produced generations of politically unengaged, if not fundamentally a-political/anti- political people. So much so that government itself has become non-political, and the notion that government is political is treated as scandalous.
Communists should oppose compulsory voting on the basis that non-compulsory voting forces political parties to mobilise their members, increasing political engagement and putting the politics back into politics. That, and I’d rather not have to waste three hours out of my day voting for same-ish Laboristas.
PARTISAN! 