Should voting be compulsory for all citizens or people should have freedom to choose not to vote. What is your opinion?

Many assert that not voting is a fundamental

right

, a free expression of political discontent. Some go as far as to say that compulsory voting is worse than being denied a

vote

and a violation of rights. Legal cases have been brought in

defense

(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies

defence

of the

right

not to

vote but

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vote, but

to date no court has enforced it. Should it be true that the

right

to

vote

could be waived and

hence

in itself be a

right

not to

vote

and deserve constitutional protection? If so could other basic rights be waived? The minimum wage? Equal employment? Hill argues that legal recognition of the

right

not to

vote

is a dangerous path to tread. The

right

to

vote

is an individual

liberty but

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liberty, but

crucially a collective

right

at the core of democracy. Without political participation

from

Suggestion

of

society, government, public interests, security and the very fabric of society would be at stake. Vulnerable social groups would lose their voices; failure to

vote

could bring political oppression and far greater infringements to personal freedom. Hill

therefore

reasons that voting is a

right

and a duty; key to the structure and values of society, a moral responsibility and more important than an individual’s

right

not to

vote

. So voluntary voting systems can continue to allow abstention, compulsory systems can have

exemptions but

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exemptions, but

as Hill states

this

“will not — and should not — constitute the exercise of any particular

right

,” and “doing so would endanger — and possibly destroy — the system for which it exists: representative democracy.”