Compulsory voting
Practice of requiring all eligible citizens to register and vote in elections / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As of January 2023, 21 countries have compulsory voting laws.[1] Enforcement of the law in those countries varies considerably and the penalty for not casting a ballot without a proper justification ranges from severe to non-existent.