I'm now 36 years old and since I was 18 I have had the chance to vote. However, I have NEVER EVER in my life voted
Why? When I was 18 I was still unsure about what and who I considered worthy voting. I considered voting not a guts or simple interests action, but something that should be more thought about, more serious. So I decided to wait and follow the political scene. It ended up in not willing to vote anyone
But also at 18 I started my university law studies and with that, learning the "system" well through, as well as a good part of political science (In Spain the jurist/law studies program has a share of politic science study on it) and I started HATING it and feeling sick of what I saw and learned. So my non-voting became a personal conviction of intimate hate and disgust with the system and specially, with the persons who managed it.
żDo you want to make voting mandatory? OVER MY DEAD BODY YOU MORONS. I prefer to pay a fine and not vote rather than to participate in this disgusting system and give it an appearance of acceptation or whatever.