• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Technically they could fine you up to 1 Penalty Unit ($330 at time of writing).

    But they just give you a $20 “administrative penalty” so they don’t have to litigate.

    https://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/non-voters.htm

    Turnout is very high every election, and we don’t need to waste political messaging airspace on “get out the vote”, so this part of our political system seems to be working well (capitalism and neoliberalism being a bane to our existence notwithstanding).

    Side note, “get out the vote” is a weird sentence.