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Originally Posted by n0nsensical
I don't see how not voting is any worse than voting for candidates who are equally bad. That said, I will probably vote assuming they received my registration, but I strongly disagree with that statement.
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Bullshit. You and I both know that the candidates in any election you might be voting in are not equally bad. Even if no candidate perfectly represents your political standpoints, it is still your obligation to vote for the one you believe will be a superior elected official.
If, on the other hand, you fail to perform your civic duty, you forfeit your right to bitch about the guy/gal who gets elected. Your best opportunity to complain is inside the voting booth. You'll find me at the polls later this evening... 
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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