Those of you who don't vote, why?

Because our system is so broken it's like playing TF2 in 2020.

I used to vote. Then people told me I was doing it wrong. So I stopped.

I moved from the UK in my early 20s, prior to that I was young and stupid, so I neglected to vote there. Then I moved to America and started the green card process, and didn't feel it was right to vote for things back in the UK as it wasn't my home anymore and it wasn't my place to say what should happen there. I finally naturalized around a decade after I moved here, and immediately signed up to vote. I actually cried at the polling station because I was so happy to vote for the first time ever!

I once couldn't vote because I had to rush to my dying grandfather the day before the election. Apart from that I have voted in every single election.

My mom never registered to vote "because I don't want to be picked for jury duty!" (stupid boomer face)

Im a Canadian and I don't care for politics. And, I know it's supposedly "my duty as a citizen" or something but I just don't care. If the world blows up, okay. No more bills or rent. If the dollar tanks, okay. There are other ways of getting supplies. If the world fights each other, okay. Let them fight and see where that gets us.

I think I'm just jaded or depressed now or something.

I assume a good chunk of people who don't vote live in non-contested counties/states and feel that it's pointless to vote.

I didn't vote for years because I was busy trying to keep my head above water and I just couldn't wrap my head around politics. I had my own shit to deal with during that time.

I'm not allowed because I'm an immigrant, and I've only found out recently that I can vote while living abroad in national elections in the fatherland.

In some Canadian municipal elections, you can vote for school board trustees.

Before I had kids, I was too lazy to educate myself on their platforms, so I wouldn't cast a ballot. I'd rather leave it up to people who care to make the decision.

Now that I have kids and school boards have turned into a culture war battleground, I am researching and voting.

1. Laziness / lack of any urgency that it will matter or make a difference to them personally
2. They’re a disinformation campaign, and taking time telling you about refusing to vote is their attempt to influence the election

I suspect that almost everyone will fall into one of those two categories

I'll preface this by saying that I am Canadian, not American, and I do always vote. I will find a way to make a choice and vote in our next election, but lately have been understanding why someone might not:

Everyone who has even a remote chance of winning has at least one position that I find entirely unacceptable. Like, I cannot in good faith vote for this person because this issue is an absolute deal-breaker for me. If I'm throwing my vote away by writing someone in, why even leave the house?

I knew I was going to be out of town for voting day and started working to get an absentee ballot three months out. I got my ballot in the mail a week after it was due for me to send in to be counted.

I vote for Federal and Provincial. For local, I never seem to find out there even is an election until after it has passed

Still really irritating

My state only does mail-in (AFAIK) and I don't have a stable address.

Unfettered capitalism has masterfully created a self-serve corporatocracy that filters money straight to the political parties who, in turn, pose puppet leaders in front of the masses to grant a semblance of choice. No good will come of this "Weekend at Bernie's" farce of an election. Under current auspices, only more greed, lies, and violence are to follow.

Sorry, disenfranchisement and apoplexy are all that remain.

Who are you supposed to vote for when you feel it doesn't matter? Or when you feel that all candidates are insufficient?

Additionally, if we're speaking of the US, the electoral college can and will supercede the popular vote. We literally put these people in power just to say we're wrong and they will quickly say we're wrong and work against the popular votes because we gave them the authority

When all of the candidates on a ballot are going to actively work against my values, why would I vote for any of them? That said, I have written in choices before, but it's a lot of work to do when literally no one will be taking notice of that vote.

I used to campaign and donate and vote every cycle, but 2020 made it abundantly apparent that the democratic party isn't actually a democratic institution. Why would I lift a finger to support a candidate ordained behind closed doors by Barrack Obama and Neera Tanden for the interests of the corporate backers of this shitty party that's been facilitating the neoliberal agenda of the right for my entire life? The DNC hates the left and I've discovered enough self-respect to hate them back now.

I've given up. Especially with my new address (same state), I don't think any of the races are even close.

I voted as hard as possible until (and including) 2022, but Dobbs hurt, and this latest round of SCOTUS rulings and it is going to be harder to get to a voting station. It just doesn't feel worth it.

I'm not sure the election system is not fixed.

But I would vote in this election if I were American. A lot is at stake. Which old man will smell the most.

Apolitical spectator.

I do sometimes vote, but as for the times I don't, the ballot is one big trick question.