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Yes, I will be voting. I live in south-east Michigan.

I will be voting because although my vote is statistically insignificant for the larger elections, it carries more weight for local elections.

To the people that say "Don't vote, it's a broken system", I say why not go an write in NOBODY. Do something, because nobody sees not voting as any kind of protest. It's lazy, and you'll never change anything at all by staying home.

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Writing in for a non-registered write in candidate in Michigan (I live in Michigan, you need to petition to be a write in candidate) results in your vote being thrown out.

So there is no difference between not voting, and writing in "NOBODY". The only difference is the civic duty circlejerk.

In UK elections they do announce the number of spoiled ballots, which might give indication of the number of "neither" votes.

Do they throw out the whole ballot, or just don't count it for that race?

Regardless, staying home isn't a useful form of protest, it won't change anything at all. There is literally no way it could.

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