Respond to a column by senior Bill Flanigen:
“Not playing along – hoarding your vote as you might hoard food, money or your dignity – can make a strong statement not of apathy, but of informed dissatisfaction with the system. That statement is just as strong as a “protest vote” for a third-party candidate, a write-in for Richard Petty or Edmund Burke, or a “none of the above” vote. In fact, the only detectable difference between protest votes and non-voting (assuming that, like me, you don’t actually support any “protest candidates”) is that protest votes kill trees and waste time.”
Read the full column here.