[LINK] Electronic Voting

[Jan Whitaker]

At 05:08 PM 17/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>I'm not even sure Australia has compulsory registration.  I remember
>at the 1975 elections I was dropped off the rolls.  I seem to
>remember they did a sweep of the registered addresses two weeks
>before the elections and removed anyone who wasn't at their
>registered address and I had moved and wasn't much interested in
>politics at the time.  I got pissed off at the whole process and
>didn't reregister until years later.  Once you're registered though
>you can get fines for non-appearance/not voting.

It certainly is compulsory registration for new citizens. They 
wouldn't give us our certificates if we hadn't filled in the voting form.

Jan


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