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People want to vote. Give them a candidate and party worth voting for.
Abstaining from a broken system is a protest in itself. How else would we know how broken the system was if people weren't allowed to withhold their vote from all candidates.
I'm not saying to force everyone to vote. But if mandatory voting was a thing I'd say put a new candidates opinion in, and if it gets over 50% of the popular vote, all new candidates required would be an interesting change. Probably has holes, but what the hell, I'll try anything rather than this 2 party money fueled government we have now
There's abstaining and there's not being bothered to vote
If the object is to send the message that the current options aren't good enough at least in the UK we vote for parties other than the main two (green and reform for example)
People can write in a name. That's a protest vote, and one that should be fine in a mandatory voting system as seen in literally all the places it is.
A good candidate would be a great idea to help deal with apathy from a difficult to vote in system but making it easier would also be a huge step up.
Both things are needed and I wish could be done in any order. But not voting at all is definitely the goal of one side more than the other.