Compulsory voting

Jeff Waugh talked about Compulsory Voting in his blog. I live in Belgium, another country where voting is compulsory; However, I disagree with Jeff. Forcing people to vote results in not just a lot of uninformed, but also a lot of protest votes. We see that a lot in Flanders, with the rise of a certain particular political party whose name I will not utter. In that background, calling a two-party political system "only one political party ahead of a fascist state" is, well, ironic.

Populism and racism in one party is a dangerous combination, especially when compulsory voting makes ill-informed people who would not normally vote cast their vote none the less.