Arguments Against Mandatory Voting

It was voting day and you were still trying to decide if you wanted to voter or not. But with mandatory voting you don’t really have a choice you have to vote. Mandatory voting could force uninformed people to vote in elections. Mandatory voting would also cost more money. Some people may say that mandatory voting would create easier access to vote. However, I do not think that mandatory voting would be good for the United States

Mandatory voting would force uninformed citizens to vote in elections. According to the text,” 35% of Americans can’t name a single branch in our government, according to a 2014 survey” . And only about a 3rd of Americans can name all three branches. Another main reason that there should not be mandatory voting is that non-voters avoid the ballet box because they just don’t care enough to get informed. Americans surprisingly don’t really care about how their government works, or social issues that face the united states. It takes a hard understanding of democracy to say that our politics will be greatly improved by getting more input from uninformed people. For these reasons should we really require uninformed citizens to vote? …show more content…
According to the passage,” Even if the United States did have mandatory voting it would not be clear on how it would affect the dynamics caused by the major spendings on politics”. Another example is that candidates have spent between six billion and one billion dollars that would increase if there was mandatory voting. The Last example is that if it would cost so much will the government be able to afford everything like candidate parties outside spending and others. With these reasons it will cost more if there was mandatory