How does this work?

a) Voting in any election is compulsory. Riiggghhhtt.
b) If you don't vote, your name is struck off the electoral rolls and you cannot then run in the next election (I think). You need to pay S$5 to reinstate your name. Need to give a "valid and sufficient reason" to want to be on the roll. I wonder why? Has anyone been denied before? If not, why bother?
c) If there is no one contesting the candidate, she gets into parliament without a single vote in her favour; you are deemed to have voted anyway. Hmm.
d) This WOMP (walk over member of parliament) gets a seat in parliament and is then subjected to the Party Whip - ie, there can be as much debate as you please in parliament but when it comes to voting in parliament, the PW dictates how the WOMPs and MPs vote.

Nice. It all works well. Life is nice.

So, it is a sorta democracy at the ballot box (assuming you can), and then it is dictatorial regime in parliament. Interesting. Use "democracy" to get in, and then use the whip to line things up.
Am I missing something here? Did my fellow citizens get shafted with slick propaganda all these years? I think so.