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Chapter 18: Q 2. (page 440)

What is the cost of voting in an election?

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Expenditure on infrastructre, cost of gathering knowledge.

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Step 1. Concept

The process of voting differs widely across each region. To make informed decision regarding their vote, voters need to do some research and gather knowledge regarding candidates.

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Step 2. Explanation

One major cost of voting is creating the infrastructure where each voter has accessibility to voting.

If every citizen of the country has access to an infra in which they can access and vote that would be an advantage for the government too because if they provide the infra, they get the greatest number of voters to vote in an election.

For the voters,the cost of voting is making the effort to go and cast votes, and gathering information about candidates.

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