Forced voting - yes or no?

I read today on Yahoo! News, that someone(s) are proponents of forcing every person in the country to vote.
Link to said article: Forced Vote
My reply:

Do me a favor, mister. Go to a poll managing class in your county, then be a poll manager (or assistant, or official, or no-goodnik, or whatever it's called wherever you live.) It would work better if you did it more than once, gained an inside perspective instead of a newbie inside perspective, but not exclusively necessary, I suppose. I have worked every election in my county for the past two years, and in June I'm going into top position in the polls (called clerk around here.) I have held lax clerks to the rules, studied the machines, studied the system, chafed about a 35-41.7% turnout, mused on ways to lift it. And I can tell everyone, this is nothing short of an unmitigated disaster of an idea.
We. Are. Not. A. Democracy. We are supposed to be a republic. There's a difference.
Quite aside from the fact that it completely negates the idea of freedom, compelling anyone to do anything - including sit on a jury, including buy health insurance - you simply cannot make everyone vote. Define everyone. Everyone over eighteen? Only men? Only whites? The president is president of men, women, black, white, every legal immigrant, every illegal immigrant, every child. Why not let children have a vote? Do they not count as everyone? Do they not have to obey the laws? Because I'm pretty sure I've seen a juvenile detention center. For that matter, why do you have to be over eighteen to run? Or 21? What's so special about those numbers, is it magic that on your eighteenth birthday you're suddenly so much more mature, and then on your 21st birthday you're even more mature?
Calling unmotivated voters out will not necessarily make them vote. They'll glance disinterestedly at the ballot, pick a person at random, and leave. Going with that, we might end up with the devil incarnate.
Databases are necessary, nitwit. We have to have a record of who has voted and who hasn't. Vote from home? Are you a mental case, or are you intentionally planning fraud? "Oh, I think I'll just go vote for Candidate A seven time and Candidate B four times, because I agree a little bit with both of them, and, let's see - oh yes! Candidate K, because I agree with her on one issue, I'll vote for her three times, because I like her three times as much as anyone of her competition-" Do you see the issue? Not to mention, if you vote from home, you'd only need the polls so the abstainers could come there to declare. A beautiful irony.
Politicians lie. How will making more people vote for them fix that?
Back to point 1. What's the point of making people vote? They will clearly no longer have the option to vote for freedom. If someone can compel you to vote, you're in a tightly controlled police/punishment state. Tax or imprison you because you wouldn't vote against your conscience, because there is no one decent on offer? It's one short step from making everyone vote, to making everyone vote for the same person, to abolishing voting. Wake up, America, 200 years ago, this man would've been shot or tarred and feathered. 100 years ago, even 50 years ago, he would've been laughed to scorn. Now we're taking him seriously. If this is implemented, it will be nothing short of calamitous. We've already lost our ability to travel uninsured. Our right to carry a gun is being severely infringed upon. If you don't wear a seat belt, you're ticketed. When you're in your car, you're in your own private property, the police don't have any authority to tell you to put on a seat belt. However, if you don't, you know what happens.
Where will it go from compelling to vote? Compelling to live in apartments? Children being trained only for the field of work chosen for them, and nothing else at all? Compelling political enemies into concentration camps, or warehouses? Removing all contact from the outside world? Reading emails? Wiretapping? Teargassing entire towns, where some citizens are more vocal, than in other towns? Murdering innocent babies? Blowing up oil pipelines? Suggesting children spy on their parents, and vice versa? All persons drafted into the military? Intentional food shortages? Bio-warfare? Domestic diseases introduced to control an inflated population?
Go ahead, hate on me, call me conspiracy theorist, call me narrow-minded, call me a gun-clinging, Christian bigot. Go ahead. But if push comes to shove, even if I'm not the last one standing, at least I'll be ready for the fight. Open your mind, think, just for a moment, if I'm right. Where will you be, what will happen to you?

Are you for it or against it? Please reply below, maybe even start a debate. A polite one, please, name calling does not prove your point.

Here's to...

Here's to those who are not only different, but are individualists. To those who aren't just different from the mainstream, but have practically no friends because they are different from everybody.
Here's to those girls strong enough and brave enough to stand up and say, "Yes, I do need someone to make me feel complete. I do need a man."
Here's to those who ignore and eradicate their feelings instead of killing themselves.
Here's to those that rethink all boundaries laid out, by society, by law, by the Bible, by other religious books, and choose the right ones because they're right, not because they're hip.
Here's to those who are beleaguered and harassed on a daily basis, and stick to their guns anyway.
Here's to those who know when to back down from a fight, and when to carry it through...
...and here's to those who do so.
Here's to those that listen in silence, then deliver all they think and know and suspect in one fell, eloquent blow.
Here's to those who assertive when they need to be, and no oftener.
Here's to those who admit their weaknesses, even when they aren't trending weaknesses.
Here's to those who know how and when to stand up to their friends.
Here's to those who have enough courage to not do what everyone thinks they should, even if it seems they're wasting their life or potential.
Here's to those who do the right thing, even when everyone else in the world thinks they're wrong, to those that don't ever give up in the right pursuits, those who wait when they should, and act when they should, and say what they should, when they should.

Inequality of Wealth in America

I watched these two videos today, and some things struck me that weren't mentioned in the second one. I'd never heard of three of the sources listed in the first one, although to anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh, the "progressive" one is highly suggestive. The one of which I have heard is CNN. And we all know the way their political cookie crumbles.
The chart was crafted by a Harvard professor. Again, to anyone who listens to Rush Limbaugh (or anything the Harvard professors say,) enough said.
Who is that "one percent" in America, and who is the "one percent" for the world? Everyone always notices how much better off the American poor is than the, say, African poor, or how much better off the American rich are to the anywhere's poor, but no one ever seems to think about how elsewhere's rich might be even better off than America's rich. Just a thought.
Okay, I agree, we don't need to "go all the way to Socialism." What does going, presumably, part-way involve, and where does one decide to stop? Why there in particular?
What made you choose those sources?
On the other hand...
Humans are fallible. "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."  Do CEOs make that much more than their average employee? I cannot say. Possibly. Possibly that was a biased exaggeration. I do know that greed is very common. Yes, we have some crooked CEOs. We have failing companies. But not every CEO is crooked, and not every company is failing.
Which brings me to another point - on what company was that figure based?
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