3 Voting Practices The U.S. Could Learn From 

Yesterday AJ+ told Americans not to vote. Today AJ+ is now encouraging Americans to vote.

Another thing Australia has : Preferential Voting, it stops the two party system

1 voting practice that all midle east could learn. democracy.

How difficult in USA it is to get automatic voting registration? In every state mind you?

the problem is not that people don't want to vote, but that there is nobody worth voting for.

Compulsory Voting has worked in Australia for over 100 years. But there is more to this that just compulsory voting. In Australia all citizens have the right to vote regardless of there status in society. This includes prisoners and people in hospital too! All Australian elections are held on Saturdays. To make voting easier for 2 weeks before the election there are early voting centres in every electoral district. Thus if you can't vote on election day you can vote before. If you can't physically get out to vote you can get a postal vote which has to be posted by the day before the election. It doesn't matter if it arrives a week later its still counted. All voting in Australia is carried out on manual paper forms no electronic voting is allowed due to risk of equipment faults and lack of internet connections in many areas. In Australia the election system is run by an independent public service body that is free from political interference. You cannot be a candidate in the election and be working for the Australian Electoral Commission in the same election! To also add to the differences in the Australian system we operate a preferential voting system where you rank the candidates by order of your preferred candidate. Number 1 being the person you want and 10 being the one you dont want to be elected.

Voting on a weekday is not only good for 19th-century farmers, but also for today's rich, who don't need to punch a time clock and can cast their at practically any time on election day - for instance, when the lines are shortest - while most of the working poor can only go when the lines are at their longest. Why should the millionaires in Congress want to change that?

why I vote for somebody I don't trust , to be honest I don't even trust any government .

Just get rid of the electoral college.

From a citizen of the Union of India. Usually, Al Jazeera has an unfavorable view of India (AJ+ = Al Jazeera +), but its the first time they have liked something in India. Never seen that before.

They do know that there is early voting started Oct 12? Maybe this only happen in Illinois and few states?

Vote by mail. Then you don't have to wait in line at the polling place

One way is having more political choices, more political parties, that would in erase voter participation.

Every election to be eligible to vote you should have to take a civics test and a more indepth Constitution test then a basic history test if you pass you have earned the right to vote that year

Maybe it would help if voting actually did anything

Hey.. Just make it a national holiday

Wow Australia, it's amazing what you can get people to do when it's mandatory

Australia's voting system and government system is excellent. I'm glad voting is compulsory here. Yet the right wing Liberals still won the last election and they are doing terrible damage to the country and to the world. But I can confidently say our people did make this choice. Just wish our government was just a little teeny weeny bit more centered... Or slightly left of center, so we can keep looking after our poor, our environment, and legalize gay marriage ffs. Our biggest problem personally is our nanny state authoritarianism. Like how Australia BANS ALL THE VIDEO GAMES.

I don't vote in any election because I feel that it's not something that's going to make my life better. Also politics is all about big money. All of these politicians are rich and they're not in my income strada so they're less likely to understand my needs. So whenever election day comes, I stay home because voting isn't worth it. It's meaningless.

There is a general misconception that Australian have to vote. We don't. It's not mandatory or compulsory. No penalty can be enforced either.

They do know that there is early voting started Oct 12? Maybe this only happen in Illinois and few states?