It's the same message every election year: "Get out and vote--It's
your civic duty." Those who audit the sound bites of the
candidates, read headlines about the debates and finally pull the
lever at their local precinct are touted as moral, upstanding
citizens; those who find among the candidates no agreeable
representative, no platform worthy of espousal, and who then refuse
to turn out on election day, on the other hand, are labeled
apathetic and the legitimacy of their opposition is denied. This
book is an anthology of articles and excerpts from a variety of
sources that deal with the topic of nonvoting. In presenting the
minority view that important moral and political reasons abound for
not voting, the book unfolds four general arguments: voting is
implicitly a coercive act because it lends support to a compulsory
state; voting reinforces the legitimacy of the state; and existing
nonpolitical, voluntarist alternatives better serve society. Many
people do not agree with the concept of nonvoting--but the serious
and well thought through underpinnings of such a belief are of
crucial importance to an understanding of modern American politics.
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