• Wooki@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Its called apathy.

    Make everyones vote count (mandatory voting) and all of a sudden it matters

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      10 months ago

      The US needs to get rid of the electoral college as well. This is dumb as fuck the weight of a vote differs between states.

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      10 months ago

      Brasil has compulsory voting and they had Bolsonaro (and apathy). I dont think thats a solution for this specific problem.

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        10 months ago

        Yeah making all the people who have no clue about politics or politicians vote for basically whoever has the most advertising or the most well-known name certainly is not a good system. It’s already pretty bad now, we don’t need to make it worse with even more uneducated people voting.