The Chilean Chamber of Deputies has approved this Monday a bill with the modifications of the Senate that restores the compulsory vote in the elections, all this ten years after its repeal.
With 124 votes in favor, six against and three abstentions, the Chilean Lower House has ratified the return to compulsory voting, leaving voluntary suffrage behind after a progressive increase in abstention in recent years, as reported by the Chilean Congress in a statement.
Thus, with this new law, registration in the electoral registers will be automatic and voting will be compulsory, as it was in the last constitutional . . .
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