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What if you HAD to vote?

Today, Explained

How Did Introducing Complimentary Voting Change Voter Turnout?

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You can't make people feel like they're criminals when they fail to vote. What happens is the electoral commission sensual letter and says I notice you didn't vote. It's not criminal activity failing to vote but you do have to vote because we all have to pitch in. People just usually just pay the $20 fine. But there's people that are exempt for example if you're homeless you're exempt from being required to vote. And also you don't get fined if you're registered and don't vote. There was a bit of grumbling but because we had compulsory voting then we decided we were going to have really well-funded electoral commissions. So we had these electoral commissions that

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