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Originally Posted by Dion
If you don't vote then you lose the right to complain when the govt does something you don't like.
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No.
I live in a riding where 80% of all people vote one way...My vote is literally meaningless.
I think people who are adamant that everyone should vote really just want their party of choice to win and see the non-voters as the reason for their loss.
Non-voting sends a strong message to the political parties that they are doing something wrong and not offering good options.
I will probably vote, but it'll be a throwaway vote for a joke party. The 3 current options right now are just abysmal. So when one of them wins, I'll continue to complain about all of them. Your logic is flawed in that it relies on their being a good alternative. It's like if one party was going to cut off your right hand and the other the left, and then saying you can't complain about having your right hand cut off, because you didn't choose to have your left hand cut off.
So, I may not vote. And my non-voting will send a strong message than my voting for a party I don't want to win.