Why are young people more likely to cast informal votes? It’s not because they’re immature
- Written by Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Research Fellow, Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
In Australia, where turning up to vote is mandatory, deliberately spoiling your ballot is one of the only legal ways to protest or opt out.
This practice of “intentional informal voting” is an increasingly significant issue. The number of informal ballots in federal elections has more than doubled in the past few decades, rising from...
