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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You receive a penalty notice in the mail and have to pay a fine. Similar to a traffic infringement or parking fine.

All elections are held on a weekend and voting booths are everywhere, to make it a little easier for everyone to vote.

You can choose to not mark the ballot, no one would know. As long as you turn up to a booth and get your name marked off, then you are considered to have voted.

As a result, voter turnout is generally over 90%.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And yet they still regularly have a right wing government fucking things up for them. Perhaps turnout is not the primary issue after all.