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In Australia we have the staff still ruling us off in the electoral role. That usually takes a minute or less. The entire voting process (including queuing) depends upon the popularity of the individual voting booth and time of day, but is usually less than 10 minutes. This may be because there are an adequate number of booths and trained staff.But it is also because of compulsory voting. The highly likely attendance numbers per booth and their distribution across the day are known and can be planned for, unlike some other more random systems.



As a Dane, our palementary elections gets about 86-90% participations, and not having voting mandatory means you get an effective signal for how the population feels by how well they attend.

We are due for a new election before july, so I will probably just save the queue and vote by mail, if I elect to vote at all.


And the other great part is the democracy sausage at the event!

Although my local polling booth didn't have a bbq going which was kind of disappointing.




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