Not forced to vote, just forced to front up and have your name crossed of the roll.

We will recruit an 18 year old to go to war and kill the enemy.
Bazz,
It HAS been 50 years since that scenario played out. The situation is vastly different now & a National Service is probably the most needed social aspect today. Now, they're 10 years old & go out & rob people & steal to satisfy their drug abuse.
They're old enough to cause trouble but they're far too immature to vote. We need to get young people into a more sane environment so that hopefully they can have a positive impact on their immature parents. It'd only be the ALP that'd suffer setbacks but society would win big time.
Imagine a time when people vote for the betterment of our society instead of personal gain only !

It's only a small fine Yuyutsu.

I refuse to vote as things are as one's vote can only go to either Child Abuser party 1 or 2.

And yes, with much relish, and narrowly avoiding an additional contempt charge, hha3, I have been prosecuted for it.

There needs to be a "conscientious objector" category i.m.o.

As currently, as best I understand it, there is only one legal reason for avoiding the vote, and that is "Religious Duty."

Yes, if you are a member of an officially registered and recognised religion, and if that religion has made it a duty not to vote for whatever reason, then you are exempt. But otherwise not, unless you are literally unconscious or possibly (not sure) without legal capacity.

Small note here: I probably should have written the ratio in my last comment with whole numbers, ie. 2&2/3:3 should have been 8:9. So the last sentence reads easier as:
"Specifically the ratio of the youth vote under this proposal to the existing system is 8:9, assuming an even spread of population for each age year at these ages."

Additionally note that if you drop the voting age even lower to 15, so that 15,16,17 year olds have 1/3 of a vote and 18,19,20 year olds have 2/3 then the total number of votes from those below 21 under this new scheme equals that that currently exists. In other words, you spread out the youth vote over a broader age range but don't change the total contribution compared to the current scheme.

I would be happy to have the right to vote extended to those 16 and over but to leave it optional below 18. If a teenager is prepared to bugger up a perfectly good teenagers typical weekend by going to vote then that's good enough for me.

This ezil should be concerning himself with voting in his own country, not ours. There they would probably be as interested in what has to say as we are - not at all.