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> The only downside of compulsory voting is that there are more votes to count Australia has compulsory voting. It also has the donkey vote, estimated at 2% o

• clouddrover 11y ago
  Before they introduced compulsory voting in Australia voter turn out had fallen below 60%. So with compulsory voting the "true vote" if you like is total votes minus informal votes minus donkey votes. Voter turn out for Australian elections these days is greater than 94%. If 5% of those votes are informal or donkey votes then that's still 89% of voters completing "true votes". A 30% non-vote has a far greater influence over an election than a 2% donkey vote. The Australian Electoral Commission has a page about it: http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/voting/index.htm http://www.aec.gov.au/About_AEC/Publications/voting/index.ht...