If you vote "none of the above", or spoil your ballot, you have my respect. Heck, if you sit it out and chill, that's cool too.
But if you can't be bothered to participate, or worse discourage others with cynicism (Trey Parker, Matt Stone), and then complain, I have nothing but contempt for you.
That said, running one's own email server is nothing like voting.
Jello Biafra once proposed a system where every ballot has a "None of the Above" and if that option wins, you do the election over with all new candidates.
Great idea. Good for election integrity too. "Under votes", common down ticket, allows someone to helpfully making a choice for you. Those down ticket races like sheriff, auditor, judge are pretty high stakes, often decided by just a few votes.
Here in Portugal we can just submit a blank ballot, and it gets counted separately from the spoiled ballots. Seems easier than adding a new option to every ballot.
Sure, you can do that in most American elections too, but do the blank ballots have any effect besides registering your discontent in a tally.
(For what it's worth, I think that if you don't like anyone on the ballot, you're much better off encouraging better people to run or running for office yourself.)
If you vote "none of the above", or spoil your ballot, you have my respect. Heck, if you sit it out and chill, that's cool too.
But if you can't be bothered to participate, or worse discourage others with cynicism (Trey Parker, Matt Stone), and then complain, I have nothing but contempt for you.
That said, running one's own email server is nothing like voting.