There is compulsory voting in Australia. I think the fine is more like ~ $150
This is something I support even though it flies in the face of civil liberties. We have informal votes as high as 10% in some places. I guess if you dont want to vote you can just write obscenities on the voting paper.
The voting paper for the upper house I had to use had 97 candidates on it. One could just put a 1 above the party you wanted to vote for or you had to number every candidate.
I hear today that in my home state, Victoria, in the upper house an Australian Motor Enthusiast Party member has won a seat. They are a group that is against all the regulations restricting cars. The 4WD community & the younger modified road car owner groups supported them. They are about as anti greenie as you can get. It will be interesting to see how much influence they have as over here there have & still are many changes going on to make rules concerning motoring identical throughout the country.

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving