who gets to vote at elections in australia
Electoral system of Australia Australian citizens over 18 years of age are required to enroll if they have lived at their current address for at least one month. Special rules apply to citizens going or living outside the country,[3] to military personnel and to prisoners, all of which do not reside at their normal residential address for electoral purposes. Homeless people or those otherwise with no fixed address have a particular problem with registration, not having a current address to give. Enrolment has been compulsory for federal elections since 1912. Enrolment is optional for 16 or 17 year olds but they cannot vote until they turn 18.[4] Enrolment is voluntary for residents of Norfolk Island. Residents in Australia who had been enrolled as British subjects in 1984 (ie., are non-citizens) can continue to be enrolled. (These comprise about 9% of the electoral roll.)
Malaysian general election, 2018 The Dewan Rakyat is made up of 222 members of parliament, elected for a five-year term; these seats are distributed between the thirteen Malaysian states in proportion to the states' voting population. Members are elected from single-member constituencies that each elects one representative to the Dewan Rakyat using the first-past-the-post voting system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the Government, with its leader as Prime Minister. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung parliament. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition. Malaysia does not practice compulsory voting and automatic voter registration. The voting age is above 21[10][11] although the age of majority in the country is 18.[12]