In the U.S. (where I live), most people have no concept of voting and elections in Cuba. They have much higher participation than our country and have now jumped to third in world for proportion of women elected:
Cuba’s election season ended on a rainy Jan. 20 when 8.1 million citizens, age 16 or over — 95 percent of those eligible to vote — chose 614 delegates to the National Assembly and 1,201 delegates to 14 provincial assemblies, all for five-year terms. Voting that day concluded a process that began last September, when people in neighborhoods throughout the island selected 37,300 local nominees for election to municipal assemblies.
More: http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/12420/1/408/
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