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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • That’s BS. Removing yourself just removes yourself, nothing more. 70% of the population not voting just means 16% get to decide - there’s no redo.

    After all, you not voting because you didn’t like the options is indistinguishable from you not voting because you didn’t care.

    In order to protest you need to participate in the process. Even invalidating your ballot is a stronger sign than not voting.

    I live in Switzerland where low voter turnout is common, yet the population prides itself for its direct democracy. This discussion comes up every election cycle and it’s always the same. Nothing happens because of low turnout and nobody thinks twice about why.

    Here, voting blank is the same as not voting, btw. It’s the way to correctly Not Care in cantons that mandate voting.