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Originally Posted by Hottentot
Not voting is like telling the current government: "keep up the good work, I don't care either way". Writing "Batman" to the ballot makes much more sense if you want to protest.
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I thought like that myself, some time ago, but then decided against it. Becasue that way you help to push up the official number for voter participation, by that increaing the legitimiation of the system, no matter your "vote". And that is what it is about for the establishement: to keep the system alive, no matter what you vote for, as long as you just vote and legitimate the system itself by that. For a government it is more difficult to hide and argue agaisnt a low voter turnout. And if those 95% of non-voters, in August's example, would turn against any formed up government by not only not having voted, but punishing it with strict civil disobedience, the givenrment simply has nothing to govern.
Giving an invalid ballot is a form of tolerating the system, even when you are against it. It makes no saense, and compromises your own stand and argument. That why those living by the system want you to vote anyhow, at all cost, no matter what.