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    Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As...
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  • of distinctive features including compulsory enrolment; compulsory voting; majority-preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the...
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    same district), such a plurality block voting are also winner-take-all. In party block voting, voters can only vote for the list of candidates of a single...
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  • eligible voters. Voting is compulsory for Belgians in Belgium. All Belgian citizens (who are eligible to vote) have to participate in the voting, but they are...
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    of compulsory voting. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2011. Hill is an advocate for compulsory voting, pointing...
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    independents will contest the election. Australia has compulsory voting, with preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats. The 2025 Australian federal...
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    required, hence no votes were recorded against the bill. The 1925 federal election was the first to be conducted under compulsory voting, which saw the turnout...
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    voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. Where voting is compulsory, casting a blank vote...
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    fashion. Donkey votes are most common where preference voting is combined with compulsory voting, such as in Australia, particularly where all candidates...
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  • restrictions on voting from 1885, and by 1902 most Australian residents who were not of European descent were explicitly or effectively excluded from voting and standing...
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  • enforce compulsory voting, he was cited to be the only member objecting to the abolition on the grounds that this would render compulsory voting, which...
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  • independents will contest the election. Queensland has compulsory voting, with preferential instant runoff voting in single-member seats. At the 2024 Queensland...
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    Different voting systems allow each voter to cast a different number of votes - only one (single voting as in First-past-the-post voting, Single non-transferable...
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    "Former MPs support compulsory voting in NZ". Radio NZ. Retrieved 19 May 2018. Rudman, Brian (14 March 2017). "Compulsory voting not the answer to low...
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  • Representatives, where all members are elected by First-past-the-post voting, instant-runoff voting, or the two-round system. The use of single-member districts...
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  • Non-resident citizen voting is citizens voting in elections according to their citizenship while not residing in the country of the election. As of 2020...
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  • Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular...
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    than 13 million Australians were enrolled to vote at the time of the election. Australia has compulsory voting (since 1925) and uses preferential ballot...
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    to vote, by absentee ballot, early voting or election day voting. GOTV is generally not required for elections when there are effective compulsory voting...
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    leader Vincent Tarzia. South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house...
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    has compulsory voting, with optional preferential, instant runoff voting in single-member seats for the lower house, and single transferable voting with...
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  • a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house...
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    some votes are valid and others invalid. A voter may deliberately spoil a vote, for example as a protest vote, especially in compulsory voting jurisdictions...
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    The electoral system of Australia enforces compulsory voting and uses full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the House of Representatives...
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    below 90% for the first time since 1922, prior to the introduction of compulsory voting in Australia. The Labor Party achieved a majority government for the...
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    [citation needed] Availability heuristic Compulsory voting Cost of Voting Index Free-rider problem Get out the vote Homo reciprocans List of close election...
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    Voter turnout (redirect from Voting turnout)
    factor affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory, as countries that enforce compulsory voting tend to have far higher voter turnout rates...
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    election. Compulsory voting for federal elections was introduced in 1924 and first used in the 1925 elections, where 91.4% of the electorate cast a vote, compared...
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    had compulsory voting and used majoritarian preferential voting in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, and single transferable voting (STV)...
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  • Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...
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