Great article. I disagree that countries like Argentina or Brazil or Singapore are less worthy of our comparison because of compulsory voting. However, yes, the donkey vote is a drag on democratic process. It is a legal obligation when it should be a right. Good on you for sharing this article

Compulsory voting is undemocratic, and cruel to the disinterested. The awful politicians we have is a sure sign that at least half the population is not interested in democracy. That half wouldn't vote if they were not forced to, and the rest of us, and the country, would be much better off.

Less than 40% of the dragooned-into-voting don't understand the equally undemocratic compulsory preferential system either.

The only way to put a stop to the authoritarianism of compulsory voting is to hold a non-compulsory referendum; but we will never get that without citizen initiated referenda - something else we are denied by our elected dictators.

Yeah disenfranchisement the only way the CONservatives can win.