Foundation Briefs Advanced Level Sept/Oct 2013 Brief
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174826514-Foundation-Briefs-compulsory-voting
secret voting procedures.
In
that respect
, it
is significant to note that
the European
Court of Human Rights
ruled that the obligation to vote did not go against article 9 of the
European Convention for the
Protection of Human Rights –
relative to freedom of thought
, conscience and religion – and to article 3 in
the First Additional Protocol that establishes the right to free elections.
In its ruling
, the European
Court declared that the citizen’s freedom of conscience was preserved because they could
always cast ab bblank vote
. (192-193)
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