Thank you so much for covering this topic @tlavagabond, ReSteemed! People need to understand they have another choice on election day, to not vote, and that abstaining is exactly what the people in power do NOT want us all to do. I agree, that if voting made any difference then they wouldn't let us do it. How much more true it must be then, that if voting made any difference, they surely wouldn't be begging us to do it! But alas, indeed they are:

Even Google is 'demanding' we vote now, the same Google actively censoring independent voices across social media...