lso a duty; 2. Low voter turnout threatens the democratic system; 3. The impact had accrued to democracy in Australia and Belgium.
             Voting is not only a right but also a duty
             Voting is a method of decision making wherein a group such as a meeting or an electorate attempts to gauge its opinion (Wikipedia). This paper herein will define that voting is not only a right but also a duty of all the citizens within a nation.
             To further understand voting as a duty, this paper looks at what democracy is. First, it is a way of governing a country in which the people elect representatives to form a government on their behalf, and it is the idea that everyone in a country has equal rights (Parliamentary of Australia Find). It is very important because if somebody's right is placed above the others', the inequality would be accrued, and thus highly reduces the degree of democracy. Where the results of a man's behaviour affect other people, the community has a right to interfere. (Saul Kussiel 124). Therefore, according to the principle of democracy, voting should be granted as a duty by countries in order to ensure the equality of everyone's right.
             Secondly, a democratically elected government is not about the people who are political activists being in a position to put people into power as the government of their choice. It has everything to do with ensuring that all people who are entitled to vote are given the opportunity to have their say on which candidates they want to elect (Jones 241). Receiving a complete public voice is particularly important to a government if the elected government wants to stand firmly and have effective functioning sections.
             In addition, besides democracy, citizens should also consider voting as a duty, and thus respect it as a private property. The people should be jealous of their democratic privileges; and we have the right to ask them that they should regard these privileges, not onl...