Reason to abolish compulsory voting

There are compelling reasons to abolish compulsory voting as soon as possible.

Can all parties who favour voluntary voting identify themselves soon please?

Compulsory voting is a dysfunctional imposition maintained to support the two-party tyranny.

It forces the major parties' platforms to the centre of the spectrum and has made them look-alikes.

It compels indifferent and poorly informed voters to support often mediocre politicians sometimes perverted by non-transparent factionalism.

Voluntary voting, common in almost every Western democratic society, is an idea whose time is really long overdue in Australia.

In the recent NSW election, voters were, again, compelled to vote for the least unappealing major party.

What real choice is that?

It really is disgraceful.

Who will abolish compulsory voting?

Not the major parties!

That is why voters must seek out reformist "minor" parties and independents whose chances in the current system are so minimal as to be hardly relevant.

Remember this, minor parties remain minor as a result of the system.

Diversity is not served.

New ideas don't get up.

Could voters please look at what happens elsewhere?

Voluntary voting and proportional representation are the norms there.

Klaas Woldring Pearl Beach