in civilised countries such as australia, voting is compulsory.  if you failed to vote, you will be found out, fined and sent to the camps. as long as you apply passport, they will cross reference the electoral roll, all done automatically; election council officials are required to be presented at every citizenship ceremony, new citizens are not allowed to leave until they are registered. id requirements at the registration is extremely strict, with both paperwork and in-person verification, including verifying signature on the spot. on the voting day, which must be a saturday by law, you bring in some form of a photo id and go to a voting place to vote. all paper ballots, preferential voting, results usually are known by the midnight. the state media abc does not end the counting and analysis program until the result is called.
Australia