By Slanted Light

Ooh, not getting notifications...

And hah - just read your post, and yes I can imagine the wailing in Chez Jaycat...

D'you know, I think I really dislike the idea of making voting electronic - everything's so electronic these days that it's almost less real, somehow... If computers broke down, it would be as if nothing existed, even! Much as I love them... *g* Plus it'd be so much harder for ordinary people to be reassured of accuracy - it'd all be down to trusting the tech companies (okay, right now it's down to trusting individual counters, but at least we can understand their answers if we have to question them, rather than being shown a line of code in which we'd have to be fluent to make any sense at all!) That said, I know what you mean - I was almost taken aback myself, when I turned around and was confronted with a pencil on a string! *g*

I suspect the media hyped up the election enough that it made it sound as if more people were interested - they certainly made Clegg sound sexier than people clearly thought he was!

Here compulsory voting sounds like the next thing to fascism, but yeah, it works in Australia.
I wonder why - people seem to sit down and accept so many rights being taken away from them, but accepting one that's being made compulsory, as you say, would probably be tantamount to... well, something Very Bad Indeed! *g*