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...

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...

vote. Among the proportional voting systems that use rating are Thiele's voting rules and Phragmen's voting rule. A special case of Thiele's voting rules...

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...

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

elected in single-member districts, by First-past-the-post voting, instant-runoff voting, or by the two-round system. The number of representatives from...

Craig. "Former MPs support compulsory voting in NZ". Radio NZ. Retrieved 19 May 2018. Rudman, Brian. "Compulsory voting not the answer to low turnout"...

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots including voting country Depending on...

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

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...

voting systems require different levels of support to be elected. Plurality voting (First-past-the-post voting) elects the candidate with more votes than...

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...

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...

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...

Member of Parliament may actively abstain by voting both "yes" and "no". This is effectively the same as not voting at all, as the outcome will not be changed...

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

and most nations use 18 as their voting age, but for other countries voting age ranges between 16 and 21. Voting age may therefore coincide with a country's...

with compulsory voting, a boycott may amount to an act of civil disobedience; alternatively, supporters of the boycott may be able to cast blank votes or...

the basis of compulsory voting, with a few exceptions. Luxembourg citizens aged under 75 years who reside in Luxembourg are required to vote, unless they...

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...

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

A precinct or voting district (U.S. terms), polling district (UK term) or polling division (Canadian term), is a subdivision of an electoral district,...

Postal voting is voting in an election where ballot papers are distributed to electors (and typically returned) by post, in contrast to electors voting in...

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...

the Liberal opposition. South Australia has compulsory voting, uses full-preference instant-runoff voting for single-member electorates in 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...

The single transferable vote is a proportional voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat (as opposed...

author of From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting as saying "Certainly, there's a photo in the 1930s of a polling booth...