Compulsory voting coming soon?

The Minister of Election Rigging is slightly miffed with the yet again apathetic turnout in these elections at 41%. Even worse, the left has not done well, even in its' flagship electorate of Mangere. He says,

voter apathy was not acceptable

However, your apathy will be fixed and he has the solution coming to your mailbox soon - compulsory voting for the masses. He also says,

ways needed to be found to encourage people to participate, because it seemed many people did not understand the issues

Seems the masses are in dire need of 'instruction' in issues and civic duties. I can see a whole new department of new unionists looming large, ever ready to promote the word according to Helen.

Why bother voting at all, what with her indoors form down south being so psychic on matters electoral and in tune with the great unwashed. Hell, she and her cohorts could tick all the boxes and vote for us, saving us licking the envelope and finding a postbox. They would get the results they long for and we would not have to waste time thinking about pollies.

Without being overly cynical, one could suspect that the red camp is very perturbed by the definite right shift. I suspect the masses know exactly what they are doing and the continuing rise in apathy reflects that voters are heartily sick of being dictated to by the state. Why bother with councils at all? The whole lot are a front for the current government, ever looking for new ways to strip-mine your wallet.