@phoenixstorm Oh they have right to cast votes - But, not the right to good information for informed vote - and still worse, for those who cast informed vote, no honest vote count.
In world of censhorship & controlled fake info, plus vote fakery when needed........ Mandatory vote does nothing. Except further punish & demoralize people.
You mentioned Australia - fine, ask Australia. For being ruled as tyranny they're even worse off than USA.
Covid tyranny, for instance, got worst prob there & New Zealand. In AUS they put people in concentration camps.
In USA - EVERYTHING Wikileaks ever released was true & relevant, info voters needed about Hillary in 2016 - so what did they do?
First they lied about its origins - the "Russiagate" hoax. CNN even lied to people that Wikileaks info was illegal to check & only CNN should be trusted to check it.
Trump squeaked by anyway. So they redoubled.
They've done psych operations on people, about covid & vaxx info, suppress info on Hunter laptop / Biden Crime Familly, suppress info on BLM & Antifa crimes, suppress info on 2020 USA election fraud, Ukraine War corruption, etc.
Censorship of media including social media, by USA & other governments, has been well documented.
But it causes information vacuum. People's attention must be filled with something. That is where celebrity ops come in. "Here is something shiny to look at."
When "democracy" is that fake, a mandatory vote only adds to pain.