Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As...

of distinctive features including compulsory enrolment; compulsory voting; majority-preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the...

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...

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...

voting takes a variety of forms and reflects numerous voter motivations, including political apathy. Where voting is compulsory, casting a blank vote...

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...

fashion. Donkey votes are most common where preference voting is combined with compulsory voting, such as in Australia, particularly where all candidates...

independents will contest the election. Australia has compulsory voting, with preferential instant-runoff voting in single-member seats. The 2025 Australian federal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

to vote, by absentee ballot, early voting or election day voting. GOTV is generally not required for elections when there are effective compulsory voting...

citizens who live in the canton of Schaffhausen are required to vote in elections. Compulsory voting never existed on the national level in Switzerland. It was...

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular...

independents will contest the election. Queensland has compulsory voting, with preferential instant runoff voting in single-member seats. At the 2024 Queensland...

leader Vincent Tarzia. South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in the lower house...

has compulsory voting, with optional preferential, instant runoff voting in single-member seats for the lower house, and single transferable voting with...

a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, with full-preference instant-runoff voting in single-member seats to elect the lower house...

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...

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...

ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball...

factor affecting voter turnout is whether voting is compulsory, as countries that enforce compulsory voting tend to have far higher voter turnout rates...

[citation needed] Availability heuristic Compulsory voting Cost of Voting Index Free-rider problem Get out the vote Homo reciprocans List of close election...

combination of single transferable vote and compulsory voting leads many politically apathetic voters to cast a "donkey vote" ranking the candidates in the...

becomes automatically eligible to vote the day they turn 18. No special notifications are sent and voting is not compulsory. Everyone older than 16 who is...

many votes they picked up in a particular area, or even a particular street. The planned introduction in the Republic of Ireland of electronic voting for...