"Voters are not compelled to support a candidate or even to cast a valid ballot. They are obliged to turn up."

Jezz this fkken clown is supposed to be a lecturer at one of our more prestigious universities and his subject is politics. The cretin does even understand the laws surrounding our compulsory voting system. 


Here is the snippet, feel free to read the rest of his horse sh1t opinion if you want, most of it is inane drivel.


"Voters are not compelled to support a candidate or even to cast a valid ballot. They are obliged to turn up."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opinion/voting-should-be-mandatory.html?smid=...




Here is the truth, something that escapes walled's statements most of the time


Under the Electoral Act, the actual duty of the elector is to attend a polling place, have their name marked off the certified list, receive a ballot paper and take it to an individual voting booth, mark it, fold the ballot paper and place it in the ballot box.

It is not the case, as some people have claimed, that it is only compulsory to attend the polling place and have your name marked off, and this has been upheld by a number of legal decisions:
™ High Court 1926 – Judd v McKeon (1926) 38 CLR 380
™ Supreme Court of Victoria 1970 – Lubcke v Little [1970] VR 807
™ High Court 1971 – Faderson v Bridger (1971) 126 CLR 271
™ Supreme Court of Queensland 1974 – Krosch v Springbell; ex parte Krosch [1974] QdR 107
™ ACT Supreme Court 1981 – O’Brien v Warden (1981) 37 ACTR 13


And some people here think he knows what he is talking about; guess again numpties, you've duped, 

BigOl64 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2017 at 1:01pm:



Waleed, who ever he is, just identified with clueless Labor supporting suburban bus drivers and council road repairers

longweekend58 wrote on Jan 21^st, 2017 at 1:48pm:



They got exactly what they wanted, so I don't see what you think the problem is.



What I want is that the lecturer of politics at Monash University has modicum of understanding of our our compulsory voting works before lecturing another country of its virtues.


BTW, Im off the roll again and those lazy public servants have stopped hassling me; so our compulsory voting is once again, not my problem. 

no they didnt. Even with voluntary voting, Clinton got a big majority of the votes. And if you included all the lazy people who didnt vote, Trump woudlnt have even gotten close.

no they didnt. Even with voluntary voting, Clinton got a big majority of the votes. And if you included all the lazy people who didnt vote, Trump woudlnt have even gotten close.