we soon forget, caldwell was elected mayor by just a little over 20% of registered voters. in los angeles in a recent election the mayor won with just 5% of registered voters.  if you are running for office and know you only have to convince one in five voters, it looks much different than if you have to convince seven out of ten. if it took 2/3 of all registered voters to get elected, maybe we would look a little closer at our candidates and candidates would surely have to offer concrete solutions to us. several writers have said mandatory voting cant work. it can if it was the law, and, you could do it from your phone.