The general feeling is that compulsory voting keeps things relatively kind of sensible and centris. Political leaders don't have to resort to dog whistles or more extremes to rally a base who might not otherwise turn up. So it's a system, i think, that served australia very well. The general feeling among political scientists is it would not be applied in countries like britain or america.
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