Even if you dislike all the major candidates, there has to be one that you dislike more than any of the others. It's a perfectly legitimate strategy to cast your vote against a particular candidate even if you don't necessarily like the party you're voting for.
For example, in 2000, I voted for the Liberals more as a vote against the Conservatives (who I simply disagreed with on too many things). It's not that I liked the Liberals per se, it's just that I didn't want a PC majority. In 2004, I couldn't bring myself to vote for either, so I gave a vote to the Green Party. Had I thought that the Green Party may actually win the whole election, then I might have voted either PC or Liberal.
The only time I abstained was during the last Alberta provincial election. Like someone else posted, I was also moving soon so it didn't seem right to cast a ballot when I wasn't going to be there after the election.
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