We should be clear. American elections have always been two parts democratic process and one part three-card monte game.

— Voting and American Decline

Some of our best friends are voters.

— Taking Politics Seriously: Looking Beyond the Election and Beyond Elections

There is literally nothing you could do with respect to a government election, whether voting for, or voting against, or abstaining from voting entirely, that statists will not interpret as legitimating the State. Statists will interpret any damn thing you could possibly do as legitimating the State; that’s just what statists do.

— Predictive value

Act responsibly: Don’t vote. That’s not a bumper sticker I’ve seen so far. Instead, it remains one of the most politically unpopular – politically heretical — statements that you can utter; it is right up there with telling teenagers “have lots of unprotected sex.

— Practical, political and moral reasons to not vote.