Should voting be made mandatory?

I was thinking about it myself a few days back and I didn't like the very idea of it. I can see slowly Narendra Modi becoming more of a dictator with time. Somebody is going to bounce him off sooner or later, because he's been agitating too many people. The karma of the Godhra riots is still there on his head. But I don't agree with compulsory voting at all. Even if I vote, the voting machine will be changed and it won't even reach the counting room. So what's the point to vote in the first place. And, I am not even interested in electing a corrupt politician. And, even if I choose the no voting option, how can I be sure that this vote is being registered when they change the voting machines. Well, I think it's a breach of democratic values. This is guy is becoming a tyrant in the state now. He is a dictator, not a chief minister.

i don't think voting can be made mandatory (even the Election Commission says it is not possible). however if it is made mandatory then the voter should also have the right to abstain that is vote for no one. and if 'abstained' gets the majority then there should be no politician elected from that place. in that case i will strongly support mandatory voting.

I can think of no good reason to make such a thing manditory. It seems to me a bizzarre contradiction to democratic principals of which voting is a big part of. Though I see voting as important, it is just as important to preserve the right to NOT vote.

personally I agree its un-democratic to force someone to vote, voting is a right for everyone but whether people exercise that right is upto the individual, I sometimes vote and I sometimes don't if there is a party I agree with I will if there is no party that I agree with then I don't. If I was forced to vote when I didn't want to I would prob just vote for one of the obscure parties that had no chance of winning.

Democracy is best manifested and attained by peoples voice.The principle behind the concept of democracy is that, " The supreme law is the voice of the people." How are these voice being heard? through the right of suffrage or the right to vote. Compulsory voting is legal it does not violate any rule under a democratic roof, It is a right to be exercised by a responsible and sensible citizen.