So you favor rule by the educated elite?
Educated yes, elite no. I support much better voter education. But there will always be idiots who don't care and don't want to care I certainly don't want them to be forced to cast a vote with equal value to mine if they're likely to simply vote for whoever has the funniest name or some other inane selection method.
The major problem with America and other democracies isn't that people are "too ****ing lazy", they're just not educated to think that their vote counts. The US voting system especially, with the electoral college, makes this somewhat true, but even electors have to vote based on a region's choice (this isn't in the Constitution, but 99.9% of electors do/have done this).
Which is why education is far more important that forcing them to vote. Forcing them to vote doesn't magically make them educated about politics.
It's really not fair to bash people who don't have time to vote on election days that have work or otherwise; that's the fault of the employers if they don't allow time for voting at home (by that, I mean in the community wherever the polling station is), or don't provide some other method.
Oh that's such a ****ing cop-out that I don't know how you can even suggest it with a straight face. An election rolls round once a year at most with general elections being much less common. I don't know how they do it in the states but over here the polls open in the morning and close at 10 at night. If you can't miss lunch once in 4 years to vote then you're still not worth bothering with no matter if you're educated or not.
Besides even if what you say is true, why not spend the resources you'd spend on policing a mandatory voting system on making it easier to vote via postal ballot or some other method where this dickensian workhouse boss you're trying to claim exists can't prevent you from voting?
If you're going to argue for the sake of arguing at least come up with something rational
