Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

My barber is a good man and a terrible voter. He couldn't name his congressman if you spotted him the state. He gets his politics from whatever his cousin posts in the family group chat. Right now, thankfully, he stays home on Election Day, and the rest of us are better off for it. Mandatory voting drags ten million versions of my barber to the polls and asks them to pick judges, ballot measures, and county commissioners they have never heard of. What do you think happens? They vote the famous name, or the first name on the list, or whatever their cousin posted. We already have a problem with low-information voting. Making it compulsory doesn't create informed citizens, it just launders guesswork into legitimacy. I would rather be outvoted by people who care than be "represented" by people who were fined into showing up.