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In an optional voting society, parties are incentivized to radicalize and enrage their supporters so they bother to go vote.

In Australia everyone knows the two parties and has a rough idea what they support. I doubt there is very much "random name voting" going on which is shown by the consistent voting patterns over the years.




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