Japan's Diet OKs legal change to allow voting at stations, malls

Japan's Diet OKs legal change to allow voting at stations, malls

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Sanae Takaichi bows during a House of Councillors plenary session in Tokyo on April 6, 2016, after the upper house enacted a law that allows voters to cast their ballots for national and local elections at polling stations to be set up at train stations and commercial complexes such as shopping malls. The legislation is expected to take effect June 19, meaning that it will apply to the upper house election in the summer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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