I swear this guy never met a mandate he didn't like
Obama: Maybe it's time for mandatory voting - CNN.com
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(CNN)The president whose major policy achievement is mandatory health insurance thinks maybe voting should be mandatory, too.
Asked how to offset the influence of big money in politics, President Barack Obama suggested it's time to make voting a requirement.
"Other countries have mandatory voting," Obama said Wednesday in Cleveland, where he spoke about the importance of middle class economics, and was asked about the issue during a town hall.
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There will be the predictable gfyers who think anything the government does is just fine but I have a small problem with the exercise of civil rights being made compulsory, kind of takes the whole "freedom" aspect out of it when the government is forcing you to comply.