I think that instead of not voting at all , candidates should have a choice to vote "none of the above" in the ballots. That way, it would be easier to have a much more accurate count of how many citizens actually vote and how many eligible votes actually voted for a particular candidate.
While I agree with Scipio's point of view that forcing a bunch of uninformed and superficial people to vote would not make for better democracy, I still think that every individual has some sort of opinion (including "I don't know or "none of the above"), and they should be made to put their opinion in the ballots rather than just abstain.
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