With voter turnout being between 50% and 60% on a good year, and between 30% and 40% in a down year, some suggest requiring all voters to vote in every election in order to retain their voter eligibility, and failure to vote in any election would automatically result in a forfeiture of one's ability to vote. Do you think that would work in the United States? Why or why not?

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Implementing a mandatory voting system in the United States where failure to vote results in the forfeiture of ones ability to vote raises several sig... View the full answer