Talk of the Town: Is compulsory voting losing its significance?
An 18-year-old filled in a few different ballot papers before the polling booth volunteer realised which electorate he belonged to.
Another young gentlemen walked out of the bush hall and told his mother, “Oh, was that what I was meant to do? I didn’t know”.
At a country pub during the dinner service one patron was heard telling a friend, “the senators are for an area, right? Like Wide Bay, or the Senator for the Moreton Shire?”
Welcome to compulsory voting in 2022.
It might seem hard to believe, but those were just a few…
