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First past the post voting is a much larger problem. Many votes in the US system actually don't matter and making voting compulsory does nothing to change that.
I completely agree.
That is why I said "One of" not "the only".
Another big one is the use of the electoral college and that it has not been rebalanced to reflect population changes in decades.
Another is gerrymandering.
The overarching problem is that, since ww2, the USA has turned their founding documents and institutions into holy relics that cannot be changed.