Low voter turnout? Bribe them! Like I said: I don't mind giving people a little incentive to put in the effort to think things through and contribute to a civil society. Hell, doing it right is work, important work, and we might as well pay people to do it. Perhaps if we had financial incentives backed by some sort of multiple-choice quiz on the candidates and issues, we could get people to do the work and do it right.
It'd work like this: you score 90% on your quiz, and you get 90 shares in the lottery. Meaning that the 500 or so other winners who pick the same lottery numbers as you will split the pot in such a way that your 90% nets you twice as much as Joe Flipacoin's 45% score.