Yes. I vote for whichever candidate seems least likely to violate my individual rights. I also don't buy the whole "let's all become sovereign individuals and abolish government" bit. Don't get me wrong, I love the theory but in the end someone will have a local monopoly on violence. Government, mafia, warlord, call it what you will.. So, if you can choose your poison, might as well.

Need to be quite drunk... as libertarian I voted by continually checking out the fraud with btc

No. The lower the voter turnout, the greater the signal for unwillingness to tolerate tyranny.

If 90% of people refused to vote in this circus, the tyranny would end tomorrow.

Not recently, but will be voting for pro-Bitcoin candidates in both of my countries in the next 18 months (USA and Argentina) because money needs to be separated from government by any means possible.

I've only voted once. It was 16 or 17 years ago and the party I voted for (a libertarian one) got less than 1% votes.

Bitcoin hasn't qualitatively changed my perspective on voting, it has only strengthened my belief that voting is a waste of time.

Nope. The game is rigged and the outcomes are very much the same. The same people control both populist parties.

And non populist parties will never get enough votes to make a difference because people are sheep

people die for right to vote, and millions around world do not have the option. maybe its nostalgia for some imagined lost past but I feel some sense of civic duty to be informed, have an opinion, and vote. maybe I'm just naïve and dumb

but I dont really expect scribbling on a ballot to really change anything. our current system is corrupt and rotten at its core so i vote everyday with my wallet and opt out of the bullsh*t

I live in a country where you MUST vote

Yup I vote. Better to get involved before people like Liz Warren are elected all over the place and make life more difficult.

Bitcoiners have some strange ideas as it comes to politics as they sit in their cushy computer chairs with functional infrastructure like water and power. It’s easy to libertarian when you get your food at the grocery store and pay your ISP to run your bitcoin node. But as soon as society breaks down because idiots are in charge because you decided to opt out then they come and convert the ISP to a government owned asset and cut everyone off unless you scan your eyeballs into the Orb!

Like the guy said before once a power vacuum is created a maniac normally gets control of the violence and subjugates people to their will. Not once has someone come in and been 100% benevolent. Even the prez in El Salvador is doing stuff that is not 100% cool with human rights.

I voted once. Got a letter 6 months later my vote was wrongly filled out. Worst UX ever.

Yes, it's the only time that you can voice out your feeling about politics.

I am literally a single issue voter. But my issue is the most important issue of all!

No government election has ever been determined by a single vote, outside of a couple small town positions. Your vote doesn't matter and that's why you get to do it.

To extend the logic a bit; even if an election were to come down to a single vote and you do decide the outcome, your vote is still only worth the difference between the two leading candidates. Since those are usually both awful choices, that's not a lot of value.

Additionally, if it's a vote for a member of a voting body (like Congress or Parliament), your vote would still only have mattered in cases where those representatives were tied on an issue, which doesn't usually happen.

Maybe someone can prove me wrong, but I think it's fair to say that not one person's vote has ever made a difference.

"... If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It..." Mark Twain

Regardless of personal politics, the deeper question here is how we hold all candidates accountable in a way that reinforces democratic norms. With Trump, it's impossible to ignore the polarization, but how much of this division is driven by media narratives on both sides, and how much is grounded in actual policy and track record? If we’re not critically examining all candidates with the same lens, aren’t we letting bias shape our democracy? The conversation needs to focus on principles and policies, not personalities alone. Thoughts?"

I'm not allowed to vote in the elections that affect me, so that makes the decision easy :)

I vote, it's a right people before us struggled to achieve and we should not forget that. Even if no candidate directly expresses my views I'll try to vote the lesser evil.

never do. All rotten people (even though they might start noble) + it is just a waste of time because most people have on idea what is good for them.

I only vote on referendums and there only one criteria is relevant: Does this increase (→ no) or decrease (→ yes) the size and power of the state.

Participating in elections does not make sense as you can not vote for the lesser evil as this message can not really be conveyed. The elected politician will always see his victory as having been the better candidate. Low participation however is the better signal as it says I do not waste my time on this circus.

I vote but not to elect them, but to get rid of them! 😁

Definitely no. Where I live, being registered to vote means they force you to do jury duty, which is consistently aweful. Moreover, politicians consistly say one thing and do another, so every vote is a wasted vote.

It’s tough to get myself to vote, but usually the choices are so different I end up voting out of fear that the worse candidate will win. It’s a tough turd to swallow. If cryptography were integrated somehow I think I’d actually get excited to vote, but I don’t really know what I’m talking about in this department either

No.

i'm libertarian

I only vote on laws and local politicians.

I can't remember the last time I voted for a state or federal candidate. The Trump/Hillary election I think I wrote in Kanye for giggles.