People aged 18 and over who do not vote face a moderate fine or, if they fail to vote in at least four elections, they can lose the right to vote for 10 years.
McConnell is surely correct in that, if everyone who has the right to vote faced no impediment to exercising that right, Republicans would never win.
If no one receives the majority vote, the two candidates with the highest number of votes face one another in a runoff.
That decision is left for a second round, two weeks later, when the two candidates with the most votes face each other, exhausted from courting the people they have just eliminated.
Mohammad-Hossein Zia, editor of Sahamnews, an opposition website, said Friday's elections were important because they were putting the government, which is holding the votes, face to face with ruling establishment hardliners.
Britain's retailers, already struggling with the economic uncertainty and volatile currency movements caused by the Brexit vote, face a £2.3bn tax hike next April, heightening fears that they will have to raise prices for consumers.
The message to Democrats seems to be to get out and vote or face repeals of laws already in place.
"What country am I in, where I'm thinking, 'Do I vote or face imprisonment or a fine, or do I walk away and not vote?'" she said.
The protest vote faced by Mr. Dell, who owns 11.7 percent of Dell's outstanding shares, is unusual, but not unprecedented.
The 73-year-old incumbent, who won the first round with 44% of the vote, faces challenger Winston Tubman, who has asked his supporters to boycott Tuesday's poll.
