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Because it is compulsory, it is also very easy to vote in Australia. Most people can walk to their local school, community hall etc. There are places to vote a
by bmunro 18y ago
Because it is compulsory, it is also very easy to vote in Australia.
Most people can walk to their local school, community hall etc. There are places to vote absolutely everywhere.
There are no queues to vote. You just walk in and vote.
This year, I queued for the first time ever. there were four people in front of me, I had to wait maybe twenty seconds.
Voting is always held on Saturday
- hugh 18y agoI'm guessing that the no-queueing is also due to the nice low-tech pencil-and-paper voting solution we have. I have no idea how many voting machines are at a typical US polling place, but I'm sure they can't serve nearly as many people in parallel as the Australian style little cardboard booths, where any decent-size polling place will have dozens of people voting in parallel. The bottleneck is at the place where they look up your name in a giant book (never a computer!) but I've never had to wait more than a few minutes there either.