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The great Republican tactic has always been voter suppression. Making voting mandatory is one way to undermine it
Mandatory = more uninformed voters. Compulsory voting solves the wrong problem.
What's more, it's also an implicit mandate of support for the status quo. Not voting is the closest thing we've got to "No Confidence", which has been the real "winner" of every election for decades.