Backwoodsman ,
what makes you so sure that compulsory voting would have altered the results in lincolnshire or anywhere else.
people can be made to register, but how they vote[ including spoiling a vote] when they are there is still not controllable.
How do you know it would make a difference
What sort of punishment do you recommend for those that refuse to vote,if a government insists on prison sentences, those that do not wish to vote, may deliberately en masse, decide to jam the prisons up by not voting as a political protest