BTW, while chatting with a guy handing out Democrat party how to vote info on Sat - we both suddenly realised the true position on voting.

He mentioned that while scrutineering last election, he noticed a large number of ballot papers (all individually accounted for - no real 'stuffing' is possible undetected - all papers are hand signed by an official on being handed to the voter) were totally blank - in other words a legal 'null vote' - we talked about 'informal votes' and whether they are deemed 'informal'. Then it hit me!

In Australia - apparently one of the few in the world - we have allegedly 'compulsory voting'.

That's not true - we have 'compulsory attendance at a polling booth' (or substitution, such as postal voting, absent voting, etc), but NOT COMPULSORY VOTING!   :-)