I suspect you can not not vote. Not voting is also a vote - in that sense, in every poll everybody is voting.
Maybe the people who don't vote on the location of a hot dog stand simply are not interested in hot dogs, so their votes are irrelevant anyway.
Also, wouldn't "not everybody votes" only be a problem if the non-voters would happen to have a unique opinion? As long as their desires are reflected in the votes of the other voters (which seems statistically likely), it wouldn't make a difference?
> I suspect you can not not vote. Not voting is also a vote - in that sense, in every poll everybody is voting.
The point is not to stop everyone from turning out, or to stop the merely apathetic from turning out, but to stop the other guy's voters from turning out.
Maybe the people who don't vote on the location of a hot dog stand simply are not interested in hot dogs, so their votes are irrelevant anyway.
Also, wouldn't "not everybody votes" only be a problem if the non-voters would happen to have a unique opinion? As long as their desires are reflected in the votes of the other voters (which seems statistically likely), it wouldn't make a difference?