It is ignorant to assume that voting is that valueless. Instead of going off because none of you seem to remember 1965 and the people that got beat up so you could vote, I will focus on the process (whether you approve of it or not). Let's say you don't vote. I assume you won't. I do. Let's assume we live in the same riding. My vote will be what you call the memory hole while yours won't. My candidate would win. You don't get the laws you want. Now let's take it further. Imagine we both want the same candidate to win. Let's say it's also a district with a religious population (we got a lot of those in the US). Pentecostals will vote, because their churches get them to vote. Then it'll be all their votes versus ours... sorry, mine. Fundies get their way and we lose our rights. You can keep your childish ignorance. If you don't think the above happens, you haven't been paying attention since 1980.