Voting in elections is made obligatory when leaders of a country have the right to do so, and when they feel it is a non-negotiable duty for citizens. Some leaders try to make it so everyone will vote regardless, others intentionally create loopholes in the system to avoid any abuses of freedom such as making it compulsory to register to vote, but not actually to cast the vote. In 2004, International IDEA found that 30 countries exercised compulsory voting, however some only on a federal, not a national level. Nevertheless, Australian academics Lisa Hill and Jonathon Louth claimed that actually, only around 14 of these countries compulsory voting schemes were popularly enforced. This shows that countries rarely have their compulsory voting
