Do the math. Australia has about 17 million voters and still spends real money chasing nonvoters. We have 230 million eligible voters across 3,000 counties, someone has to mail the notices, process the excuses, hear the appeals, and collect the fines. That's a new bureaucracy the size of a small federal agency, and every dollar of it comes out of budgets that could've gone to making voting easier. We'd spend billions punishing nonvoters instead of spending millions removing the barriers that made them nonvoters. That tradeoff is backwards.
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