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In countries without mandatory voting, if voting is more inconvenient for certain groups than for others, the latter will be over-weighed in the election. With mandatory voting, casting a valid vote is no more and no less inconvenient than spoiling the ballot, so that's not an issue -- all eligible people who ceteris paribus would prefer, no matter how slightly, to vote will do so.
(Unlike wedrifid I'm not in a country with mandatory voting, BTW.)