Just saw someone suggesting the US voting system might be improved by compulsory voting like we have in Australia, which pulls the results towards the centre, not extremes. Someone else objected that it removes freedom of choice.
Just saying, our penalties for not voting are very light (a small fine). Plus if you don’t want to vote, you can cast a ‘donkey’ vote by filling the form out wrong (including the time honoured tradition of drawing a dick on it to show you’re unimpressed).
Because everyone has to vote, they make it easy for most of us - many booths at schools or community centres, and on a Saturday. Prisoners vote, people in hospital are assisted, the idea being to make voting accessible to everyone, whether they want it or not. I think that’s better than tactically disenfranchising groups of people, and the so-called loss of freedom of choice is actually misleading.