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Of course there is no peace for them.
The sheer power and numbers of people who, get their information from news bits, trite bits of "common sense" and other poor sources of information, outnumber the people of conscience, the reasonable folks, those that do deep research, self reflection and in depth evaluation.
To the point that not voting, is the most logical and economical reason.
Knowing that you're going to the polling booth next year is a pretty decent motivator to get some information on who you'll vote for (even if "none of the above"). It doesn't nullify what you've said, not by a long shot: But would you really say that those already going to the polls are mostly motivated by conscience, reason, deep research, self-reflection and in depth evaluation?
The only likely pragmatic outcome from mandatory voting is a higher percentage of both under- and moderately-informed voters going to the polls... at the expense of each side's hyper-partisan nutjob share of voters. I don't see that as a bad thing.
There might also be an increase of well-informed voters going to the polls, but that depends on guesstimates of how many voters and non-voters happen to be well-informed.