🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About Compulsory Voting?

Does compulsory voting pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the Jersey demand of arms compulsory voting. Does it
pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Well, America is this is November four, They're about to
hit the polling booths now. They say that they're expecting
a huge turnout, which means about sixty six percent. That's
the I think one of the highest results I've ever had,
and they're expecting something like that. It can be as
low as fifty percent, you know, it can be below

(00:29):
fifty percent, the number that will decide the government. But
they don't have compulsory voting.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, the twenty eighteen election, that was a forty nine
percent turnout. That was and that was that was a
mid teen That was a mid teen midterm on for Obama.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, so if you want to have a say, what
are you going to do? Do you think we do?
You think it's right that we have compulsory voting? Does
it pass the pub test?

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Well?

Speaker 5 (00:53):
I found it quite bizarre that the so called most
powerful man in the on Earth, the guy with the
fin his buttons for the nuclear bombs, can be put
into position by not even compulsory voting.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
No, absolutely not, because in a democracy people should choose
actually I go through the voting boots and I don't vote.
I just registered and lock out for me.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
Yes, because I value my vote. But unfortunately, having been
an electoral representative for many elections, no, because people are
only turning up to get their name marked off and
not actually casting a vote. I see why we need it,
but unfortunately a lot of the people don't appreciate this
value of what we get to do.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
This is a country that we're supposed to have freedom
of speech and everything. How do you have freedom when
you're being forced to vote and if you don't like
anyone that's there that has to be voted for, you
get penalized because you didn't want to vote for them.

Speaker 5 (01:52):
It's short has past the pub chest. Look, we're live
in a very great country that's got a good democracy,
and it might be a bit of a plan to
guarantee you.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Up every time, so you get the.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Voters are plain they have to sit through all the
campaigning as well. But we're very lucky that we've got compulsory.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Voting because we know when someone gets elected that everyone
in the country's participated in it.

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Yes, definitely, if you don't vote, you can't complain about it.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
If a T kids gets voted in, you will to
stuff as a consequence, as they used to come.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Wise words