BERKELEY, Calif. — What if everyone in America had to vote?
No lame excuses like all politicians are the same, or one person’s vote really doesn’t matter, or the dog ate my ballot.
There are roughly two dozen countries requiring what is gently called “mandatory attendance at the polls” and two would-be reformers would like the United States to join those ranks, though they readily concede the odds of that happening are exceedingly steep.
