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Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised' (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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What about the best of both worlds? You can cast you own vote or you can hire a proxy to vote on your behalf. Obviously we would need some regulation on what is basically selling votes. But by making it an expense people are incentivised to do it themselves and you have the power to remove their proxy status at any point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

That is actually what was proposed by the candidate @[email protected] was referring to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Obviously we would need some regulation on what is basically selling votes

No different to the potential for the same problem today in representative elections.