President Obama suggested the idea of mandatory voting at a speech in Cleveland on Wednesday. The Associated Press says the president quoted stats from the United States Election Project indicating that fewer than 37 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2014 midterm elections. Most of those no-shows were younger, poorer, less educated and more racially diverse, Obama told the crowd. "If everybody voted, it would completely change the political map in this country," he said. And maybe counteract the powerful — and corrupting — influence of money on politics. America wouldn't be the first to make its citizens vote. According to the AP, some two dozen countries have adopted some form of compulsory voting, including Belgium, Brazil and Australia.
