There is no voting in North Korea.
This voting age criterion is associated with North Korea.
It is not compulsory to vote in any election.In Australia, compulsory voting for federal elections was introduced in 1912.
Voting is a requirement to show fictional public support for the regime. There is an assumption in international politics that voting demonstrates the legitimacy of any regime, so North Korea does it perfunctorily.
There is no compulsory voting in Japan.
Compulsory enrollment was introduced in 1912, however compulsory voting didn't come in until 1924
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There is nowhere in the United States that it is compulsory to vote. Compulsory voting is most common in South America. Australia may be an exception; a democracy with compulsory participation in voting, and with enforcement. Several European countries and some of the Pacific island nations have compulsory voting, but often do not enforce it.
Compulsory voting should be implemented in the united states
Political parties don't need to work as hard to earn votes. Political parties don't need to motivate their base, only the swinging voters. This makes it harder for people to tell the difference between the right and the left. Compulsory voting distorts the true free will of the people by counting government-assisted votes and encouraging non-compliance. Compulsory voting leads to high levels of informal voting, where people avoid voting in objection to compulsory voting. Compulsory voting means innocent people are punished for doing nothing wrong and hurting nobody. Compulsory voting is almost non-existent in the world...just a handful of countries enforce it. And most of those countries can hardly even be called democratic. Compulsory voting leads to people avoiding registering to vote in order to protect their freedom. Compulsory voting means freedom is mandatory. It can't be. It's not true. Compulsory voting favours greater government regulation & control. Voting is how the people exert power over government not how the government exerts power over the people. Compulsory voting increases political apathy. After non-registration and informal votes are taken into account, compulsory voting has lower voter turnouts than many voluntary voting systems.
It would encourage uniformed or unserious voting :) -Apex-
The sentence "Compulsory voting promotes a more equitable and representative democracy" is an example of a claim of value from the article "Compulsory Voting An Idea Whose Time Has Come".