A South Australian man is challenging Australia’s compulsory voting law in the Supreme Court in a hearing to be held on Tuesday at Flinders University to accommodate an expected large crowd.
Anders Holmdahl, 65, says he has lived in eight countries and in only two of them – Australia and Cyprus – has he been forced to vote.
Mr Holmdahl says the only way he could challenge the law was to not vote in the last federal election and then refuse to pay the $20 fine.
“The current system is an undemocratic infringement of individual freedom and free will,” he told The Advertiser.
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for the last federal election show voter turnout of 93.8 per cent in South Australia for the House of Representatives and 94.3 per cent for the Senate.
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