In this case, I have no dogs in the race. I'm registered in a different county from where I now live and it is too late to register in this one. I am not inte

In this case, I have no dogs in the race. I'm registered in a different county from where I now live and it is too late to register in this one. I am not interested in any of the local issues in the other county and I am uninterested in any of the statewide candidates. For me, in this circumstance, a vote would be like a ritual selection of the best sounding name or the most obscure ballot or something. That is not the sort of voting that is good for anyone. When I used to work on campaigns for a third party, the most annoying thing was the fact that there is a lot of inertia from people who have no idea who any of the candidates are ritually voting a party line. In NY, where I lived, there was even a special lever that marked the whole party row, to enable reduced thinking. Another comment here says that politicians love an apathetic population. More correctly, they like apathetic populations that vote consistently.