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In America you have rabid GOP vote rigging. In Australia we have our biggest logistical effort to aid every citizen to fulfill their mandatory obligation to vote.
"Australian federal election 2019: Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten head to the polls as voting begins – politics live"
Australia election 2019: The most remote polling stations
By Gary Nunn Sydney
14 May 2019
Australia election 2019
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Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election
In a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.
The task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.
Most Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.
It's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.
Here are four of the most challenging locations to reach.
1. Remote indigenous communities
"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them," says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.
His team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.
In many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.
Two voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010
Larger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.
Although voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, "democracy sausages" are less likely.
More - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48174207
"Australian federal election 2019: Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten head to the polls as voting begins – politics live"
Australia election 2019: The most remote polling stations
By Gary Nunn Sydney
14 May 2019
Australia election 2019
Getty Images
Officials will visit more than 3,000 remote locations before Saturday's election
In a vast, sparsely populated land like Australia, overseeing an election is a massive logistical effort... particularly when you have compulsory voting.
The task is greater than ever ahead of Saturday's general election because a record 96.8% of eligible voters have enrolled to cast a ballot.
Most Australians will vote in cities and regional centres, but many simply cannot get to those places. To ensure everyone gets a say, election officials are visiting more than 3,000 remote locations over 12 days.
It's a sprawling, ambitious undertaking that involves travel by air, sea and land - sometimes to set up a single ballot box.
Here are four of the most challenging locations to reach.
1. Remote indigenous communities
"If we get a request and can fit it, we'll go out to them," says electoral officer Geoff Bloom.
His team charters boats, planes, 4x4s and helicopters to visit 200 remote communities in the Northern Territory.
In many indigenous communities, where English isn't the first (or second) spoken language, an interpreter accompanies the election officials. More than 200 languages are spoken, but his team speaks only the most widely used.
Two voters outside Gunbalanya, Northern Territory, in 2010
Larger communities have 2,000-2,500 residents; the smallest his team visits are out-stations with four or five homes and just 10 electors on the roll. But they'll still visit - helicopters travel to up to three communities in a day.
Although voting in suburban Australian towns typically involves a sausage sizzle, in the remote communities he visits, "democracy sausages" are less likely.
More - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48174207
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