Why I Will Not Vote {AutoDebate}

• the right to vote has been fought for through numerous bloodsheds, is it in vain?
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• if you do not vote, do you make democracy progress?
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• do you promote the status-quo?
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• if you do not vote, who is benefiting from your apathy?
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• what is the alternative?
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See also

• The $10 billion voter by Scott Aaronson, Shtetl-Optimized November 2012
  • mention of Peter Norvig's article
    • mostly ignoring the cost of deciding for whom to vote (in time but also in stress, cognitive and social) rather than solely the act putting the bulletin in the ballot box
• Wikipedia:Athenian democracy

  • also the expected returns are quite questionable as they imply a working political system

• being candidate (or at least thinking one can) before voting
• ENA and not publicly available course material despite legislation regarding government generated materials (a la OpenData)
• differences between pre-election promises and actions
  • cf declared measures for accountability vs. default obscurantism by "lack of resources"
• ties gathered before an election in order to get the means to have media coverage
  • with obvious implication after the election itself
• supra-national decision making
  • e.g. 80% of member states legislation inherited from the European Commission
• Seedea:Content/Newconcepts#RationalIgnorance
• OpenGovernment
• EthicalFramework
• LegislativeChanges
• VotingIsALearningProcess
• Wikipedia:Plutocracy
• PiecesOfCulture#Essays