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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

allowed red states to have worse and worse elections to cease control at a national level

If only they'd cease 🥲

Americans, I highly encourage you to do everything you can to seize the means of federal elections, and put it in the hands of an independent federal electoral commission, instead of the nonsense state administration you currently have.

Maybe one day you'll have a voting system as good as ours (one point we are very proud of).

Love from Australia

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh man if we had mandatory elections like you guys it would go a long way. What's the penalty there for not voting?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Technically they could fine you up to 1 Penalty Unit ($330 at time of writing).

    But they just give you a $20 "administrative penalty" so they don't have to litigate.

    https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/non-voters.htm

    Turnout is very high every election, and we don't need to waste political messaging airspace on "get out the vote", so this part of our political system seems to be working well (capitalism and neoliberalism being a bane to our existence notwithstanding).

    Side note, "get out the vote" is a weird sentence.

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