COMPULSORY VOTING
EFFECT IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne,. November 11. Statistics showing the effect of compulsory voting, indicate that 91,39 and 91.75 per cent. of the' electors, voted at the general• election in .November-last and the referendum respectively. At the 1925 election 285,187 persons failed to vote, and 135,765 gave valid and sufficient reasons for not doing so. Convictions obtained numbered .649, the penalties imposed amounting to £lBO5. . • Refusal to vote on religious grounds jm accepted in 8781 cases-
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 9
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77COMPULSORY VOTING Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 9
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