For those of you who don't vote, would you care to support your decision?

This is meant to be a completely voluntary exercise, and I’m not asking so that I can judge you or convince you that you’re wrong. I do however vote, in every election, and you can expect me to challenge you if I see a problem with your logic or have an alternate point of view I’d like you to consider, and I welcome others to challenge you too, but at the end of the day, I support your right to do as you please.

This question IS however meant to open up a debate, so if you’re not prepared to debate your decision, I won’t begrudge you if you don’t answer this question, that’s completely up to you. And though I promise not to berate you if I disagree with you, I do intend offer a counterpoint (if I have one) to any point you make if I don’t agree with it or if I think you should see it from a different angle. But, I’m not approaching this with an “I’m right, you’re wrong” mentality, just looking to engage in a good discussion about why people make the choices they do.

To be honest, I see good arguments to be made about choosing not to vote, and more often than not, I end up voting not for my candidate of choice, but for the person I suspect will do the least harm, but even though I’m often left unhappy with the choices I have, I still choose to exercise my right to vote, and I take that right very seriously and have very strong reasons why I think voting is THE right thing to do. I suspect if you don’t vote, you have very strong reasons why you think THAT is the right thing to do, and I’d simply like to hear the counterpoint and open up the issue for discussion.