enforcement is very lax or absent, the system seems to work. Surprisingly, voters still tend to adhere to the rule, not really for fear of punishment, but rather driven by popular belief or political custom.
This comes down to how you can justify what compulsory voting really is (and opens anew thread of
argument in doing so. While voting is coded into law in the aforementioned countries, the policy is not
enforced. The idea of cost or penalty, seemingly inherent to the enforcement of compulsion, is no longer ab bfactor, while the effects of compulsion with respect to voter turnout remain. The argument could be made
for such a system against more practical neg assertions concerning enforcement and personal liberty.
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