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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
Jessta: 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.
nelix:Human beings that are to lazy to learn about politics and might as well not vote at all. And whatever happened to freedom? Whyshould you force someone to not be lazy? Fuck that, facist.
There is a difference between encouragement and force. Australians are encouraged to vote to avoid a $50 fine, they may choose not to vote and instead pay the fine.
