Why do you vote (or not vote)?

[SykkBoy]

I vote to have a voice, even if it's only a small one...
I realize in the grand scheme of things, I'm just one vote, but on a local level there have been a lot of things passed by less than 100 votes.

I'm going down tomorrow to do my early voting and I'm going down with 4 others who've never voted before. There is another group of 15 that I helped get down and register and will be voting for the first time. Imagine if everyone got 4-5-6 more people interested in issues and would take them down to vote.

My grandfather and grandmother used to go down and basically cancel out each others vote, but they felt it was important tp keep the number of voters up because then there could be some semblence of their vote meaning something.