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"If voting changed anything, it would be illegal." Yes, I'll be voting today, but primarily because there are some contentious local candidates and local issue
by thaumaturgy 12y ago
"If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."
Yes, I'll be voting today, but primarily because there are some contentious local candidates and local issues. Like most voters I'm pretty disillusioned by the state of politics at the state and federal levels.
I'm starting to think of low voter turnouts as a quiet protest against a broken and corrupt political process, and seen that way, I really can't in good conscience encourage anyone else to vote.
- 0x5f3759df-i 12y agoThere is no way to determine whether someone is not voting out of protest or just simple laziness. That is not an effective way to protest. Voting for a smaller party that never wins would be more effective way of protest. A "quiet protest" has never fixed anything.