Does Your Country Have Compulsory Electoral Registation And/Or Voting?

[Left Leanings]

In the UK, it is now compulsory to add your name to the electoral register, though it is not compulsory to actually go and cast a vote.

Peeps who do not register, can face up to a £1000 fine.

Now this is a right load of fucking shit. My pal got a letter threatening him with court action and a fine, if he failed to register. He is a creative chap, and 'gets by', if you know what I mean. Now the baillifs have found out where he lives, and is on his case again. And all cos they traced him, thanks to the electoral register.

What I want to know, is whether comrades are required to register for the vote in their country, and if so, are they required to vote as well, and what is the sanction for failing to do so?

Bourgeois fucking democracy, takes the piss.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Don't take it to hard, whether you're natural born or immigrant, you have to sign up for military service in the US. So while voting is not compulsory, dying in some imperialist war is; which is to say, it could be worse mate. I'm so moving the fuck out of here asap.

[Left Leanings]

Don't take it to hard, whether you're natural born or immigrant, you have to sign up for military service in the US. So while voting is not compulsory, dying in some imperialist war is; which is to say, it could be worse mate. I'm so moving the fuck out of here asap.

Omfg good mate, I feel sorry for yous in America. Wtf. You still have to do a stint in the Army? That was done away with years ago in the UK. It used to be called 'National Service'. My uncle had to do it, but not my dad, but then my uncle is 10 years older than my dad.

I know Norway has a compulsory stint in the forces as well, cos a Norwegian mate told me. You can work on community projects instead though, if you want to.

[Sir Comradical]

Here in Australia, yes.

[Yazman]

I am currently in Australia and there is compulsary voting and registration. Not sure what the penalty for not registering is, but there is a fine for not voting. The fine depends on what sort of election you didn't vote in.

[Deicide]

Talking about national service.. a couple years ago, when I turned 16, the Lithuanian army were going to take me back to Lithuania to do 2 years national service.. I decided to go college, so I escaped. The Lithuanian army is much worse than the UK army.. you don't want to go in there, the 'soviet' mentality still persists.

Two years national service was compulsory in the USSR. My dad went in, you wont like some of the stories.. it was a place of non-stop violence. The officers would take turns to beat the shit out of you, if they didn't like ya. Oh and you didn't get paid a penny..

[Red Rabbit]

Don't take it to hard, whether you're natural born or immigrant, you have to sign up for military service in the US. So while voting is not compulsory, dying in some imperialist war is; which is to say, it could be worse mate. I'm so moving the fuck out of here asap.

Wait, what? You're not required to join the military in the US.

[seventeethdecember2016]

Wait, what? You're not required to join the military in the US.
You are required to sign up for the draft, however the US doesn't currently use the draft system. If the US plans to go into a World War like situation, they can call of the draftees to defend the Mothers Land! Oh wait... I mean defend (Bourgeois) Liberty and (Bourgeois) Democracy!

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Registration in Sweden is at least automatic. I'm not sure why they bother making it compulsory when they can just make it automatic.

Either way, fuck bourgeois elections.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I'm surprised your pal got a letter. Apparently there are a load of people (in the thousands) who have 'dropped out' of the electoral register, stemming still from the anti-poll tax campaign. I'm surprised they're actually following this up.

I'm on the electoral register but often my vote is a 'no vote'.

[Left Leanings]

I'm surprised your pal got a letter. Apparently there are a load of people (in the thousands) who have 'dropped out' of the electoral register, stemming still from the anti-poll tax campaign. I'm surprised they're actually following this up.

I'm on the electoral register but often my vote is a 'no vote'.

It is suprising. When the law for compulsory registration was introduced, I personally didn't expect much action to be taken as a result. I thought it was just one of those laws that would be on the Statute Book, and not followed through.

Nevertheless, he did receive a letter, threatening him with action and a £1000 fine. And he did register, and the bailiffs got onto him as a result.

Here is a link giving the testimony of one person who received a similar letter and threat:

http://gizmonaut.net/blog/uk/2009/09/voting_optional_registration_compulsory.html

[kashkin]

Registration is automatic IIRC, and you get a fine and have to go to court if you don't vote. But many people donkey vote anyway.

[RedAtheist]

I'm in Australia and I have to register to vote this year. I wouldn't bother if I didn't think I'd be fined for not voting. My school principal randomly announced to us once that people who didn't vote annoyed her. I don't know what the point of her bringing that up was. It seemed like random pro-capitalist propaganda.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

My girlfriend and I argue about voting...the first time I told her I generally don't vote she was like 'whaaaa?', before I explained I have reasons and am not just apathetic about politics (though I am quite apathetic about bourgeois elections, if i'm honest).

[Krano]

Voting? no, but we still have the backwardness of Conscription.

[Q]

We don't have such a register in the Netherlands. I don't see what function it would have to facilitate elections either. What we do have (I guess that comes close) is a voting pass you get mailed to your home to be able to cast "your" vote.

[Sasha]

We don't have such a register in the Netherlands. I don't see what function it would have to facilitate elections either. What we do have (I guess that comes close) is a voting pass you get mailed to your home to be able to cast "your" vote.

This, no compulsory voting, everyone residing legally gets automaticly a voting pass for local ellections, in nationwide and province (who in turn elect the senate) elections only dutch citizens get one.

On the offtopic side of this thread:


You are required to sign up for the draft, however the US doesn't currently use the draft system. If the US plans to go into a World War like situation, they can call of the draftees to defend the Mothers Land! Oh wait... I mean defend (Bourgeois) Liberty and (Bourgeois) Democracy!

I believe this is also the case here, at least it was when I turned 18 a dozen years ago, but this also goes automaticly, i just got a letter saying I was now a draftee but didn't have to show up and so also couldn't object. We where planning to go to court over it (as when we would be called after all in a war situation we one wouldn't face jailtime for dodging but actually treason) but didn't set it through..

[Q]

I believe this is also the case here, at least it was when I turned 18 a dozen years ago, but this also goes automaticly, i just got a letter saying I was now a draftee but didn't have to show up and so also couldn't object. We where planning to go to court over it (as when we would be called after all in a war situation we one wouldn't face jailtime for dodging but actually treason) but didn't set it through..

That would have set an interesting judicial precedent actually. Someone should still carry through with this and see what comes out.

But yeah, drafting has been "suspended" (not abolished) since 1997.

[ForgedConscience]

I'm not even 18 yet but I've been forced to register as a future voter. This however took place when I wasn't so philosophically or politically concious so I went along with it like a complacent drone...

[GiantMonkeyMan]

Apparently it's compulsory to vote if you want an opinion on politics. "If you don't vote you can't complain!" pffft, fuck off. :rolleyes:

[Goblin]

I know Norway has a compulsory stint in the forces as well, cos a Norwegian mate told me. You can work on community projects instead though, if you want to.

True

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Wait, what? You're not required to join the military in the US.

I mean't you have to register for selective service.

[China studen]

In China, I have never cast a vote!