Comment on Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised'

• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t want to choose a proxy

  ???

  You don’t have to, that’s the entire point of the proxy; it’s for people who can’t/don’t want to vote on every single issue. Clearly you’re not one of these people so there’s no actual issue here, you’re just arguing for argument’s sake.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Though I should argue that democracy is not functioning if people cannot care about issues due to needing to work excessively in order to eat and have free time. People shouldn’t be worrying about what they’re going to eat or where they’re going to live but about policy that affects them

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t want to choose a proxy, I want a direct say

  Ok then? But why should your preference to do it that way dictate how everyone must do it?

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• unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @Zagorath@aussie.zone @Deceptichum@kbin.social

  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

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨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.

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  • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is actually what was proposed by the candidate @Zagorath@aussie.zone was referring to.

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