In Australia, election days are a party, and everyone’s invited.
Brett sees the map as evidence that election-day festivities have a future. “It came out of the younger generation’s social media use. It was them making their contribution to the way Australians do elections,” she says. “The barbecues had probably been going for a couple of decades. But they came up with this idea of the democracy sausage [map]. So that showed a community aspect because the rituals have been added to by the younger generation.
To Australians like Poole, the system is unremarkable because it’s all they’ve ever known. She says: “It’s something that is pretty standard. When election day rolls around, we might go with our family or go with some friends, stand in line, have our democracy sausage. It’s something that is almost just part of being in this country.”tends to vote in national elections, the idea of compulsory voting is also gaining some currency.
Elli Murphy, 21, is a volunteer on the campaign of Zoe Daniel, an independent candidate in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne. She says that the benefits of mandatory voting go beyond just bringing a broader cross-section of the electorate into the tent, and that the system actually encourages political engagement.
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