I have Australian friends, and one thing I've asked them about is their compulsury voting laws. They don't like it. My one friend is very apolitical and she votes for herself, because she really doesn't care to understand the issues. I respect that more than her voting for one person or another without investigating them.
I like freedom. Freedom means being able to be stupid. Freedom means being able to hurt yourself. Freedom means not voting if you don't want to.
I'm 24. A lot of people my age don't care about the issues. I have more respect for people who don't know about the issues and don't vote, than I do for people who have no idea what the hell they're talking about and don't shut up about it.
I hope you don't argue for removal of the Electoral College. One terrible thing we did was change the Constitution to directly elect Senators.
Oh, heck no. I believe in the wisdom of the founders. We have an Electoral College partly because they didn't want stupid people, i.e., the ignorant masses voting on their own.