NationStates Jolt Archive

According to Dahr Jamail, a number of Iraqi voters were under the impression that their food rations would be cut off if they failed to vote.
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/hard_news/000192.php

Interesting.

It's the best reason ever IMHO

Apparently the way they worked out voter turnout was to have the election workers look at the line for the polling booth and estimate what % they thought were voting.