Living in a direct democracy, I can vote on pretty much anything; be it local or the confederate level. I vote most of the times. I do not vote for local elections as I am way to uninformed as to what is happening in petty politics.
I do not believe in voting being compulsory. Not only would you have unintersted, uninformed total idiots voting for rediculous things but you would also no longer have the choice and isn't that what a democracy is, after all...
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