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Slate has the best article ever on not voting.

Even for the most passionate partisan, it's hard to
argue that voting is a good use of your time.
Instead of waiting in line to vote, you could wait
in line to buy a lottery ticket, hoping to win $100
million and use it to advance your causes—and all
with an almost indescribably greater chance of
success than you'd have in the voting booth.

(They give equal time to the counter-argument, of course.)