Yes really danm.
I know how Australia works. You are bitching about this, Section 245 of the Electoral Act:
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It shall be the duty of every elector to vote at each election... The Electoral Commissioner must, after polling day at each election, prepare for each Division a list of the names and addresses of the electors who appear to have failed to vote at the election.
People have to vote, and it is a requirement and failure is punishable by law.
If you really resent this so much, you might want to try some of the more established and well founded lines of disagreement that have been presented against it, for instance the debate of whether or not a voter can be held obligated by a result harvested through compulsory voting. That is still within the framework of democracy, whereas your arguments are not!
Adding a vote for the sake of it, can seems silly to you, but that is the price YOU pay to have YOUR freedoms. You allow other people THEIRS based on POLITICAL EQUALITY. Freedom for Thor as well as for Loki, as we say here in the north.
Otherwise, I am free to gain power, and push you around as I see fit. Your opinion doesn't count, because I think you are a numbnut, and if you resist, I can @#$%& up your life as well as your body, with the might of the state apparatus, remember? I will leave you in the hospital without proper care, crippled for life, because you don't do, what I think you should be doing. That will teach you.
Yeah... @#$%& off with your fascist bullshit!
Digressing slightly, I will do a reversal on you, just to feed you your own bullshit. I don't think you know how our system works! We have some 3 million voters. Elections are often decided by a few thousand and sometimes hundreds of votes, and rarely even a single vote. And amazingly, it still works! Imagine that...
One of the reasons, is that we do not operate with a winner takes all system, like you do.
This winner takes all system, like in America, is a remnant of the difficulties of collating large numbers of votes by hand, registering them with pen and paper, and sending the results by horseback. Obviously, it is very difficult to secure accuracy and authenticity. Those problems where solved with the advent of the telegraph! We have embraced that, and using a nifty device called a computer, we can quickly and accurately register all votes after the voting action has come to an end. By way of the internetz, we send that information to a central computer, which in turn points out several winners in each voting district. Thus the actual votes cast are more accurately represented in the election outcome.
Winner takes all is not needed any more! Update your system guys. It is outdated by at least 150 years!
Returning to the main line of thought: I am in opposition to my government, and have been for close to 10 years now. I think they are morons and I despise their right wing elitism - although you would love it, danm! But as much as I resent them, I would rather have that, than your preferences!
What you said is dictatorial and fascist, especially the notion in a previous post - of a national strength in a framework global competition based on Social Darwinism - is fascist. You are a fascist. You just don't want to accept it.
It's only after we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything.