voting system in Belgium?
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The only Belgians that don't have to vote are the ones not living in Belgium and possible prisoners and people with serious mental health problems.  And the ones living abroad are allowed to vote even if they have never paid taxes because they spent all their working lives outside Belgium.\nAlso Belgium doesn't have a president.  It is a federal kingdom with a king as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of working government.
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It is due to the system of participation.  The one in the states is called first-past-the-post or a plural majority, meaning if voted for Republican (AHHHH!), but a democrat got in (YAAAH!) my vote would be excluded and ignored.  However, in Europe proportional representation allows for every vote to be counted, and that gives rise to a multi-party system. So, sad to say the only way there's is going to be a third party system, would be to get off your arses and demand change.  Don't tell me, you'll do it right after American idol!! Joking, we Brits have the same crappy system.
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ask ur university electoral officer
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They all tend to vote in blocks
206124
They use a parallel electoral system. Out of the 450 members in the Duma, half are elected in SMDs using the Plurality system and the other half are elected by regional lists using PR. A party needs a threshold of 5% to qualify. The results are very disproportional.
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Many people are concerned with computerized voting. \n\nThat's why many juristictions are looking at machines with VOTER VERIFIABLE PAPER TRAILS. \n\nVoters are given the opportunity to verify - on paper - that their votes have gone the way they want. Once the ballot is finalized, a barcode is printed as well. A recount can be done by machine (scanning the barcodes) and by hand (reading the names). \n\nAnd, if you're so damned sure about the answer to your question, why are you bothering to ask?
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No, because it doesn't matter if you do vote. Politicians do what they want not what they're elected for, and most voting systems don't allow proper representation.
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I'm not sure. Let me ask my mommy.   ....................(5 minute temporary pause)............\nShe says it's a temporary system where temporary people cast temporary votes in temporary ballot boxes with temporary 'hanging tabs' in a temporary election to temporarily elect a temporary President for a temporary period. \nOooh, isn´t my mommy smart?
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I want to know where the hell you live that voting is compulsory at all.
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I think most people can vote. Presumably those over twenty as that seems to be the age of majority here. However, the government is such a bureautic one party system that it doesn't seem like they get much of choice. They more vote for the leader of the party I think.
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You can scatter your votes, I usually do.  I vote by issue, being middle class, and not a globalist.  We don't have a party of our own.   \n\nYet.
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Start here: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/\n\nTouch Screen voting is notoriously unreliable. There have been hundreds of reported instances in Ohio, Florida and other states where people have voted for one candidate and the computer records their vote for someone else.\n\nPlus, aside from the machines, the integrity of central registry computers (where the votes are tallied) are in serious question. The software they use can be easily hacked by using simple Windows tricks. You could transfer hundreds, even thousands, of votes with virtually no trace.\n\nIn Wisconsin, we use scantronic machines. You fill out a paper ballot which is read by the computer. It combines a paper trail with electronic efficency. And the machine prevents overvoting and has a very high accuracy (99% plus) rating.
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In the end you only have one vote regardless of your political affiliation.  People who don't vote are the weak ones.
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Citizens of at least the age of 18 may vote.\nVoting rights are enforced by the states.  In different places released convicts may be excluded from voting, be allowed to vote, or only be allowed after applying for restoration of voting privileges to the state.  T
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I was in Belgium 1986-1989 with the RAF. Depends on if you want to live in a Flemish or a Waloon area. Yes it is divided. My main memory is of a country where the pubs were open 24 hours and I never saw a drunk, the shop windows were not boarded up in the evening and the trains ran on time with no vandalism on the railways. I also went to football matches with alcohol on sale and no trouble. Another advantage of Belgium is it's close access to a lot of other countries which explains why they all speak each others languages though when you are that close it becomes dialect.
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Yes.  We had mechanical voting machines for decades.  You disappear behind a curtain and pull the crank to clear the machine when finished moving levers.  I've read those old monsters are the most precise.
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It probably depends on where you are. In Canada we can register right at the poles on election night.