There are two ways to cast a ballot under the alternative vote system of Fiji.

Overall, 43 per cent of the women registered to vote actually cast a ballot.

However, 62 per cent of the nation's three million voters chose not to cast a ballot in those elections.

This security also includes being able to campaign in support of a candidate's platform or to cast a ballot in a remote district.

Candidates could be presented a year before the election and Member States could express their preference by casting a ballot, which could be open or secret.

The constitutional referendum held on 10 and 24 May 2008 marked the first time that Myanmar citizens had cast a ballot of any kind since the elections of 1990.

A penalty of imprisonment for a term ranging from two months to two years is applied to “any person who casts a ballot while knowing that he is deprived of the right to vote or is suspended from exercising this right by a court ruling and any person who casts more than one ballot in a single election”.

Out of 147 ballots cast, a majority of 98 was required for the election.

Out of 146 ballots cast, a majority of 98 was required for the election.

A minority of voters are forced to vote in the regime`s favour by casting ostentatiously a red ballot in the ballot box.