Americans: Who didn't vote today? :)

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Faced with the usual "get out and vote" marketing and social media barrage on this Election Day, I'm wondering who else besides me did not go out and vote today.

You can also state your reasons if you like . '

I'm specifying Americans because today was a mid-term Election Day for us, but if you're from elsewhere and you also didn't vote, that's fine too .

I did not. Why bother? We're so far gone there is no helping this country anymore.

Besides I don't like either Democrat Raphael Warnock or Republican Herschel Walker. They both beat on their wives apparently.

I'm not putting my stamp of approval on the system. I am sick of both sides saying to vote for the lesser evil. I would much rather just focus on things that actually matter to my life and that I have any chance of having any kind of control over. Besides, I have far too much else on my plate to care. I also had to work today.

I live in the USA, and have to pay local taxes to a degree, and purchase tax in full, but they don't let me vote because I'm only a Green Card holder so far. So I'm taking the liberty of posting here, and I'll desist if the OP politely asks me to.

So although I don't think American politics are none of my business, I'm not unduly concerned, because I live in a strongly Republican, Trump-supporting state, so there's no chance of my vote making any practical difference. If I understand it right, one House is elected by proportional representation and the other is by "first-past-the-post," in which case my vote wouldn't count for absolutely nothing, but even so, the USA population is so huge that my expressed preference would be diluted to a homeopathic level. It's much more effective to vote where parties are neck-and-neck, but does anybody have the right to wield disproportionate power? Of course it only matters if the voter thinks there's any appreciable difference between the parties.

Long story short, I don't think I'd have voted this time even if I'd been allowed to.

I didn't. But that was more laziness than anything else. Didn't feel like getting out of bed early. Indiana is going to stay nice and red regardless.

I believe the right to vote is something which is fundamental.

If we didn't have that right, there would still be kings/dictators ruling over us.

If it is known that a whole group will not vote, that group will be taken for granted.

We must use the power of the ballot.

A vote seems pretty useless when we are always forced to choose between the frying pan or the fire. Just saying.

My vote didn't matter. Abbott won by a landslide, and will continue Texas' path to theocracy.

If we lose the right to vote, we are sunk.

Creating laws that control evangelicals' words, thoughts, and maybe bodies are the only solution in many parts of the country.

That or disbanding all law enforcement in those areas.

I don’t believe in “disbanding” law enforcement anywhere.

I voted and Tina Kotek won Oregon's Gubernatorial Race.

She is now Oregon's first lesbian governor.

@ Kraftie: If law enforcement is disbanded, the US could be sent back to the days of the Wild West because vigilante law will never be considered "real law." I also believe the right to vote is essential to keep the US political system in check and if the right to vote is taken away, the US could become a worse dystopia than it is as of now.