Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

I became a citizen in 2016, and the first time I voted I cried in the parking lot afterward, which embarrassed my husband. In the country where I was born, people my parents' age queued for hours in the heat to vote in the first free election, and some didn't come home. So the American habit of treating the ballot like a coupon you clip if you feel like it has always struck me as strange. People say mandatory voting violates freedom. I think choosing not to vote when the right was handed to you freely is the real waste, but I wouldn't force anyone's conscience either. Let them cast a blank ballot if they want. What I can't accept is a system where the people who most need government to work, the poor, the young, the ones working two jobs, are exactly the people who stay home, and then we call the result the will of the people. It's the will of the people who had time.