Topic: What voting asks of you, country by country
How does China mark What voting asks of you, country by country?
Everyday topic
China's constitution sets a low threshold in Article 34: every citizen who has reached eighteen has the right to vote and to be elected, irrespective of ethnicity, race, sex, occupation, family background, religion, education, property or length of residence — that last clause is precisely the mirror image of Taiwan's four months and Japan's three. The real dividing line is Article 97: deputies to the people's congresses of counties, cities not divided into districts, municipal districts, townships and towns are elected directly by the voters, while deputies at the provincial level and in cities divided into districts are elected by the people's congress one level below. A voter's ballot therefore reaches the county and township tier directly; everything above that is chosen indirectly, one rung at a time.
What is this topic?
Article 14 of Brazil's constitution makes voting a duty for citizens between eighteen and seventy, and you must account for missing it. Taiwan's Public Officials Election and Recall Act says in Article 17 that you vote at the polling station of your household registration — there is no absentee ballot, so election day becomes an island-wide journey home. China's constitution reserves direct election for the county and township level. And in the United States, federal law fixes election day as the Tuesday after the first Monday in November — a day that is not a holiday. One act, seven different answers to who may vote, where, and whether the day belongs to you.
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