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Thursday's NBC Today seized on President Obama's seeming advocacy for mandatory voting in the United States during a town hall event on Wednesday, with fill-in news anchor Tamron Hall declaring: "The President said the U.S. should be making it easier to vote, not harder. He says if everyone voted, it would completely change the political map."
Minutes later, co-host Carson Daly noted that Obama "has a lot of people, including us, talking this morning" and played a clip of the President's remarks: "In Australia and some other countries there's mandatory vote. It would be transformative if everybody voted. That would counteract money more than anything."