Hard to say - I don’t like mandatory voting on philosophical grounds (I don’t believe you should force people to vote, when you can’t force them to be informed) but it does turn out the more quiet voters and that may have made the difference this time.
Yeah. To my understanding you have to show up, but do you have to vote, or vote correctly?
Here in the US supposedly the 10% of dumbest voters who deign bothering to show up supposedly decide all elections, the swing/swayable voters. A sizable % of these have no guiding political philosophy they can express. So it’s not like we are guided by the majority’s deep understanding, it’s supposedly the voters that were swayed somehow.
Freegards