Harvard Law Review, “Compulsory Voting’s American History” - https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/compulsory-votings-american-history/. Australia already has this, and I’d say, having lived in both countries, this solves a few (not all) challenges facing democracies today. Politicians in Australia don’t have to incite people to vote because the practice is already compulsory. They also rely on healthy traditions around voting days such as the famous sausage sizzle. I’ve often wondered if this is some sort of joke about citizens who delegate authority to parliamentary representatives, i.e. Australians don’t necessarily want to watch laws being made, but they do enjoy having a vote about who does the sausage-making. In any case, as an advocate of deliberative democratic systems, compulsory voting is not a panacea. But I think it can play an essential part in the aim to enrich democratic cultures.