Lisa Hill is a politics professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. She says it's an honest system, with low levels of corruption and trust in the outcome. The electoral commissions are so squeaky clean and organise, she says. And if everybody's voting, you're going to have a more agile and responsive parliament.
Midterm elections are a tough sell in the United States. Half of eligible voters show up in a good year. On Election Day, we’re revisiting an episode about how things work down under, where “sausage sizzles” and “bathers” make mandatory voting feel like a party.
This episode was originally produced by Noam Hassenfeld and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. It was updated by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Efim Shapiro and Matt Collette. New reporting by Amanda Lewellyn, Miles Bryan, Laura Bullard, and Hady Mawajdeh.
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