Compulsory voting

Reader Steve is so upset that he labelled the 4.9 million yet to register qualified voters as no-brainer.

Is this some world no.1 figure? 5m out of 15m = 33%?

Then when election comes, let say only 70% this registered 10m voters, so only 7m voters go to vote…mathematically, that means BN needs only 4.62m of votes to win as majority.

Then, lets say umno has 3 mil members, mca 1 mil, mic 0.5 mil(just guess, donno how many they have)…they just need to woo 0.12m of neutral voters!

Well, that’s fine, it’s your constituitional right not to do so as stipulated under the Malaysia’s law. However, these group of people need to bear in mind that, when you disqualified yourself from exercising this democracy right, please do not complain that you’re unfairly treated by the Government, feeling unhappy and discontent with the quality of life you’re enjoying. Well, to put it bluntly, you ask for and deserve it.

Now, come to think of it, voting is compulsory for every Australia citizen aged 18 years or older ever since compulsory voting policy was introduced in 1924. If you do not vote and do not have a valid and sufficient reason for failing to vote, a penalty is imposed. The arguments used in favor of compulsory voting, among them are voting is a civic duty and parliament reflects more accurately the "will of the electorate".

But, why not in Malaysia? Go figure it out.