In recent days, A-listers in Brazil and abroad have used their prestige and social media platforms to call for young, first-time voters in Brazil to register to vote in the October presidential election.
In Brazil, voting is mandatory for anyone aged between 18 and 70, and failure to vote entails paying a small fineHollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo joined other celebrities making a final push for voters in Brazil to register before a deadline on Wednesday, prompting dismissive responses from President Jair Bolsonaro.
In recent days, A-listers in Brazil and abroad have used their prestige and social media platforms to call for young, first-time voters in Brazil to register to vote in the October presidential election that is expected to pit far-right incumbent Bolsonaro against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Workers' Party.
In Brazil, voting is mandatory for anyone aged between 18 and 70, and failure to vote entails paying a small fine. Those 16 and 17 can vote but are not obligated, and young people have been at the center of nationwide get-out-the-vote campaigns. Brazil's electoral authority says it has received a record number of registration requests. In the 2018 presidential election, nearly 116 million voters — out of the 147 million people registered to do so — turned up at the voting stations.
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