Voting alludes to a belief that THEIR VOTING MECHANISM is legitimate; that voting can turn wrongs into rights. Voting also alludes to the belief that you need to ask THEIR PERMISSION for your natural rights. Politicians are always telling you to vote… Please explain how on earth voting is *disobedience.* You seem intelligent, maybe there was a misunderstanding?

The regime does gain legitimacy in the eyes of part of the population by holding elections. Those people will happily vote without me, their ideology does not hinge on my actions, and thinking it might is magical thinking. By voting tactically, we can raise the costs of putting on that circus act, and/or discredit the process in the eyes of its ideological partisans. Communist Che Guevara believed in representative democracy no more than we do, yet he wrote (and I paraphrase) "so long as the regime continues to hold elections, however fraudulent, the revolutionary outbreak cannot be successful". Contra SEK3, refusing to vote is no more laudable than a refusal to use weapons, or a refusal to use the Internet.