To my thinking, there should be two days per year declared national holidays for voting.
Replace any two current holidays you want.
Give everyone who votes a $100 dollar tax deduction for voting.
Insidiously simple and effective.
Yeah. . .but to get that hundred many low-information non-voters would suddenly become low-information voters.
I do NOT endorse the concept that low voter turn-out is a bad thing. I think it is a good thing.
If you don’t know the issues or candidates, you have no business voting.
During the last election, many of my students did not vote because I stress how important it is to know who/what you are voting for, and not merely voting because someone made you feel guilty about not voting.
Some didn’t vote because they realized they haven’t paid attention and haven’t given a thought to voting until all those ‘get-out-the-(democrat)vote’ drives, and they knew they would be just tossing a vote out there that might, or might not, be for what they want.
Paying people (tax deduction) to vote would only attract the wrong kind of voter (IMHO).
After the fall of Sadam, Iraqis stood in line, knowing they could be the victims of snipers or car bombs, to cast their votes. After casting their vote, they showed the purple ink on their finger with pride.
But in the USA, folks can’t be bothered to go a few miles to their local polling places.