Assembly Elections Result 2023: Fun Facts About The Election Across The World

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The constitution has declared India a 'Democracy where only citizens can elect the government. Democracy means free and fair elections, and it is never one size fits all. India State Legislative Assembly elections 2023 which have been ongoing from Tuesday, 7 November 2023 will come to an end on 3 December 2023.

While the entire nation will be glued to their tv and phone screens to see the voting results, let us know the fun facts about the election across the globe.

Assembly Elections Result 2023: Fun Facts About The Election Across The World That Will Take You By Surprize

1. Kids Can Vote In Brazil
Kids are eligible to vote in Brazil, because citizens living there have the right to vote at the age of 16. Also, those who are 16 and 17 are also eligible to vote in Austria, Nicaragua, and Argentina, and 17-year-olds can cast votes in Indonesia and Sudan.

2. BBQ Party During Polls In Australia
To encourage voting, in Australia, near the polling sites, festive atmosphere is created and it often involves throwing some 'democracy sausage' on the barbie as well as turning voting experience into a party. Perhaps that is the reason, why the voter turnout in Australia is around 90 percent.

3. Men And Women Voted Separately In Chile Till 2012
When women were given right to vote in local elections in 1930, separate polling locations were created for men and women. However, the voting registries were combined in 1949. It was only 63 years later, that the government felt that voting doesn't not have to be segregated by gender.

4. American Astronauts Can Vote
Since 1997, American astronauts aboard the International Space Station have had the ability to vote. It was Texas lawmakers who passed a measure that allowed secure ballots to be sent to space by Mission Control in Houston, Texas. The astronauts could make their selections and then their ballots-PDFs of the paper ballots they'd receive in the mail-are beamed back down to Earth. The clerks could open the encoded documents and submit a hard copy of the astronaut's ballot to be counted.

5. You Can Cast Your Vote Online In Estonia
If you are an Estonian, then you can vote online and bid goodbye to the hassle of waiting in line at local polling stations. This came into effect since 2005. In 2023, parliamentary election, more than half of the voters took advantage of the online voting system. Their every citizen receives a scannable ID card and PIN, that one can use to fulfill a number of civic responsibilities, from filing taxes to paying library fines. The vote is encrypted which renders it anonymous.

6. Creativity To Counter Illiteracy
If you are residing in Gambia, then citizens can cast their votes by dropping marbles into color-coded metal drums with pictures of the candidates. All the drums are rigged with bells, so the marble dings after it's dropped in. In case, the bell rings more than once, poll workers know someone has broken the rules.

7. Voters Are Automatically Registered In Sweden And France
Ahead of election day, you can simply relax because the government in France automatically registers the voters when they are eligible as soon as people turn 18 . However, in Sweden, the list of eligible citizens is created based on tax registries.

8. North Korea Too Holds Elections
This one is too far from democratic, and people do not have much choice when it comes to endorsing someone. North Korea's ruling party select everyone on the ballot ahead of time, so to vote, North Koreans simply have to drop a printout of the names in a box to indicate their support. Also, a separate box was present at polling locations, that voters can use to register their rejection of the given candidates.

9. British monarch Can Participate In Elections
In the United Kingdom, there is no law that barrs King Charles III from participating in elections. However, his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, rarely voted. "It's very clearly the convention here, that the queen is above politics ... it's a convention that the royal family do not vote in general elections, and this is very much an extension of that convention," said a Buckingham Palace spokesman while talking to the press during Britain's contentious and controversial Brexit referendum in 2016.