Analysis Of The Article 'Telling Americans To Vote Or Else'

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There is an argument in the article “Telling Americans to Vote, or Else”, that is written by William A. Galston. The article states that voting should be necessary for everyone. The author contrasts American voting with Australian voting. In the text, it says,
But consider Australia, whose political culture is closer to that of the United States than that of any other English-speaking country…Australia adopted mandatory voting in 1924, backed by small fines…for nonvoting, rising with repeated acts of nonparticipation. The law established permissible reasons for not voting, like illness and foreign travel, and allows citizens who faced fines for not voting to defend themselves.
This statement proves that Australia has similar political

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