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Voting is legally required for Australia’s 13.6 million enrolled voters, who can be fined if they don’t cast a ballot. The unusual compulsory system resulted in a turnout of more than 94 percent in the last election in 2004.
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Howard concedes defeat in Australian elections - CNN.com
I find it interesting that this is ‘unusual’. It has many advantages the main one being that gets around the general laziness of human beings.
