Editing Compulsory voting (section)

===Repealed===
Countries where voting is no longer compulsory:
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|{{Flagicon|People's Socialist Republic of Albania}} [[Elections in Albania|Albania]]
|Compulsory voting, which existed throughout the Communist period and produced official turnouts of 100%, was repealed with the new election law of November 1990 and January 1991 during the [[Fall of communism in Albania|fall of Communism in Albania]].<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.iri.org/sites/default/files/fields/field_files_attached/resource/albanias_1991_parliamentary_elections.pdf |title=The 1991 Elections in Albania: Report of the Election Observer Delegation |publisher=National Republican Institute for International Affairs}}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Austria}} [[Elections in Austria|Austria]]
|At the national level, introduced in 1924.<ref name=":1" /> Repealed in 1992. At the provincial level in [[Styria]], [[Tyrol (state)|Tyrol]] and [[Vorarlberg]], repealed in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elections in Austria |url=https://www.bmi.gv.at/412_english/ |website=www.bmi.gv.at}}</ref> 
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|{{Flagicon|Bulgaria}} [[Elections in Bulgaria|Bulgaria]]
|Due to the low turnouts at elections, the [[National Assembly (Bulgaria)|National Assembly of Bulgaria]] introduced compulsory voting in 2016 – the only European country to do so in more than 50 years – but the [[Constitutional Court of Bulgaria]] annulled the law the following year, declaring that the right to vote was a subjective right and not a public function that entailed an obligation to vote.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 February 2017 |title=Bulgaria's Constitutional Court Abolishes Compulsory Voting |url=https://www.novinite.com/articles/179013/Bulgaria%27s+Constitutional+Court+Abolishes+Compulsory+Voting |access-date=22 July 2022 |work=novinite.com}}</ref> 
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|{{Flagicon|Cyprus}} [[Elections in Cyprus|Cyprus]]
|Introduced after [[London and Zürich Agreements|independence from the British Empire]] in 1960.<ref name="idea" /> Repealed in 2017, after having been inactive for many years.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 31, 2017 |title=Government abolishes compulsory voting |newspaper=Cyprus Mail |url=http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/05/31/government-abolishes-compulsory-voting/ |access-date=June 21, 2017 |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119091003/https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/05/31/government-abolishes-compulsory-voting/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Dominican Republic}} [[Elections in the Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]
|Compulsory voting, which was not enforced in practice, was repealed with the 2010 [[Constitution of the Dominican Republic]] which states: "Nobody can be obligated or coerced, under any pretext, in the exercise of their right of suffrage or to reveal their vote." In 2017, a proposal by an opposition party to establish compulsory voting was defeated.<ref>{{cite web |date=4 May 2017 |title=Should Dominicans be Forced to Vote? |url=https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2017/05/04/should-dominicans-be-forced-to-vote/ |access-date=22 July 2022 |work=Dominican Today}}</ref> 
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|{{Flagicon|Guatemala}} [[Elections in Guatemala|Guatemala]]
|Repealed in 1990.<ref name=":1" />
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|{{Flagicon|Italy}} [[Elections in Italy|Italy]]
|Between 1945 and 1993. (Possible arbitrary or social sanctions, called the "innocuous sanction", where it might, for example, be difficult to get a daycare place for the citizen's child or similar.)<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=IPU PARLINE database: ITALY (Camera dei Deputati), Electoral system |url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2157_B.htm |website=archive.ipu.org}}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Lebanon}} [[Elections in Lebanon|Lebanon]]
|Repealed at least since the electoral law of 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=IPU PARLINE database: LEBANON (Majlis Al-Nuwwab) |url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2179.htm |website=archive.ipu.org}}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Elections in the Netherlands|Netherlands]]
|Introduced under the [[Pacification of 1917]] along with universal suffrage, repealed it in 1967. In 1946, a survey conducted by the Netherlands Institute of Public Opinion (NIPO), in the [[Netherlands]], reported that 66 percent of those asked favored repealing compulsory voting.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Irwin |first=Galen |title=May we have the votes, please? |url=https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/fac7b21c-484e-475f-982f-b409c2237f72.pdf |website=European Consortium for Political Research}}</ref> In 1966, the public was polled again, this time by the Politics in the Netherlands survey, and responded 69 percent in favor of the policy.<ref name=":2" /> In 1967, the [[Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam|Free University of Amsterdam]] polled voters on whether they thought the compulsory voting laws at the time were "right" or "wrong"; 70 percent of those asked answered "right", 28 percent answered "wrong", and 2 percent gave no opinion.<ref name=":2" /> In January 1969, the Netherlands Institute of Public Opinion polled again, and found 53 percent of those asked were in favor of abolishing compulsory voting, while 29 percent wished to keep it.<ref name=":2" /> In 1999, support for compulsory voting in the Netherlands was just at 35 percent.<ref name=":2" />
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|{{Flagicon|Panama}} [[Elections in Panama|Panama]]
|The current [[Law of Panama|laws of Panama]] do not mention any sanctions and do not specify the obligation to vote.<ref name="auto" />
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|{{Flagicon|Philippines|variant=1936}} [[Elections in the Philippines|Philippines]]
|Compulsory and enforced during the regime of [[Ferdinand Marcos]].<ref>Bunge, Frederica M. (ed.), ''Philippines, a country study''/Foreign Area Studies, The American University (1984), pp. 195–196</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Portugal}} [[Elections in Portugal|Portugal]]
|[[1933 Portuguese constitutional referendum]], not enforced.
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|{{Flagicon|Spain|variant=1785}} [[Elections in Spain|Spain]]
|1907–1923, but not enforced.<ref name=":1" />
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|{{Flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Elections in Switzerland|Switzerland]]
|Widespread among the country's 26 cantons in the 19th century but progressively abandoned since then with only Schaffhausen still retaining it.<ref>{{cite web |last=Leybold-Johnson |first=Isobel |date=4 April 2014 |title=Le dernier canton où le vote est obligatoire |url=http://www.swissinfo.ch/democratiedirecte/schaffhouse_le-dernier-canton-o%C3%B9-le-vote-est-obligatoire/38284104 |access-date=28 March 2018 |work=swissinfo.ch}}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon image|Flag of the State of Georgia (non-official).svg|link=Georgia (U.S. state)}} [[Elections in Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]
|By Article XII of the 1777 [[Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state)|Constitution of Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Constitution of Georgia, 5 February 1777 |url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ga02.htm  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213082118/http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ga02.htm |archive-date=13 December 2007 |access-date=2007-12-07 |publisher=The Avalon Project at [[Yale Law School]]}}</ref> This provision was omitted from the revised Georgia constitution adopted after the [[ratification of the United States Constitution]] in 1789.<ref>{{cite web |title=Georgia Constitution of 1789 – Founding.com |url=http://founding.com/founders-library/government-documents/american-state-and-local-government-documents/state-constitutions/georgia-constitution-of-1789/ |access-date=28 March 2018 |website=founding.com}}</ref>
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|{{Flagicon|Venezuela|variant=1930}} [[Elections in Venezuela|Venezuela]]
|Removed in 1993.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Elliot Frankal |date=2005-07-04 |title=Compulsory voting around the world &#124; Politics &#124; guardian.co.uk |publisher=Politics.guardian.co.uk |location=London |url=http://politics.guardian.co.uk/apathy/story/0,,1521096,00.html |access-date=2011-10-04}}</ref> Had been largely unenforced before then.<ref name=":62"/> Turnout since 1998 has averaged 62%<ref>{{Cite web |title=IFES Election Guide {{!}} Country Profile: Venezuela |url=https://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/231/ |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=www.electionguide.org}}</ref> compared with almost 90% on average between 1970 and 1993 during compulsory voting.<ref name=":9" />
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