@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agoWhy is Australia the only "core anglosphere" country where voting is mandatory?message-square67fedilinkarrow-up1120
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minus-square⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoWhen you go to vote they check you off on either a physical or digital list - so they can work out who didn’t vote. What they can’t work out is whether you submitted a legit ballot
minus-squareParadoxvoidlinkfedilinkEnglish3•11 months agoI’m using ‘didn’t vote’ to include submitting an empty ballot, which for the purposes of the Electoral Act, is the same thing.
When you go to vote they check you off on either a physical or digital list - so they can work out who didn’t vote. What they can’t work out is whether you submitted a legit ballot
I’m using ‘didn’t vote’ to include submitting an empty ballot, which for the purposes of the Electoral Act, is the same thing.
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