The truth is that the Democracy Sausage is the old chestnut of defunding of public infrastructure, combined with a dash of market capitalism.
Most of the time, polling places are government-owned spaces, such as schools or local halls. They're never assigned enough money for all the equipment and such that they need, so they run cake stalls and sausage sizzles to make money.
So it could technically be "democracy cake" or "democracy muffin" but "democracy sausage" just has a more amusing ring to it. :D
I was talking to someone about the mandatory voting and its benefits (all of what you listed) and someone explained that the downside is that there are many places (in this example, it was Brazil) where mandatory voting led to corruption and bribing or paying people to cast their votes a certain way.
Even so...I love that voting is mandatory, not based on trickery, not a rubbish mess of trying to STOP people from voting.
I think anything that involves giving 'ordinary people' power has the potential for corruption, if only because someone wants that power - whether they're willing to pay for it in cash, or gain it by denying people a vote, or by pressing hot-buttons to make individuals single-issue voters...
A country like Brazil has corruption and bribery at the voter level, while a country like America corruption and bribery at the political level, even if it's not actually called that.
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Most of the time, polling places are government-owned spaces, such as schools or local halls. They're never assigned enough money for all the equipment and such that they need, so they run cake stalls and sausage sizzles to make money.
So it could technically be "democracy cake" or "democracy muffin" but "democracy sausage" just has a more amusing ring to it. :D
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I was talking to someone about the mandatory voting and its benefits (all of what you listed) and someone explained that the downside is that there are many places (in this example, it was Brazil) where mandatory voting led to corruption and bribing or paying people to cast their votes a certain way.
Even so...I love that voting is mandatory, not based on trickery, not a rubbish mess of trying to STOP people from voting.
Go, Australia!
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A country like Brazil has corruption and bribery at the voter level, while a country like America corruption and bribery at the political level, even if it's not actually called that.
Take your pick of humanity.
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My country is SUCH a shitstorm.
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