"I don't like any of the options so I won't vote! Ha!"
... no one cares.
Only 45% of voting Americans vote as it is. You'll be one of many who sit out the vote. In fact, there are politicians in your state hoping you'll sit out the vote because it means they can win with fewer votes.
There's a percentage of people who don't vote because they can legally, but things like health or work prevent them from getting to the polls or mailing in a ballot (where mail-in voting is allowed).
But that's about 10% of the non-voters.
The rest are comfortable letting anyone win.
The politicians don't see your non-vote as a protest.
The Republicans party is counting on you to not vote. They need you to not vote so they can push Trump and his rich-people-first policies.
If you want to protest: VOTE.
The USA isn't a place where your silence on a vote is an effective form of protest. We don't call off the election if the majority of people opt out.
We could have 99% of the population sit out the vote, and the remaining 1% would get to determine who leads the country.
If you want to see real change in the USA, you need to vote.
Find the candidates in your area who are moving the furthest in the direction you want to go, hold your nose, and vote.
Sitting out the vote does nothing to help anyone.
In the US if you don't vote, most people don't assume you're making a statement. They assume you couldn't be bothered.
@LianaBrooks agree 110%. People who don't vote (on purpose) are strangely willing subjects no different from feudal serfs (minus the willing part). They might as well just sign away the rest of their rights.
@LianaBrooks yeah they found statistically it's easier to flip a voter than to make a non voter vote. When they do make efforts towards non voters, it's about voting access issues, because that is what affects the most non voters.
@sheseala I've only voted in person twice. Once was a very rural, conservative part of Florida where they had multiple voting booths open for weeks before the election and it was five minutes in and out. The other was in South Carolina, in the most liberal district, there was one voting space and only at certain hours. We waited in line for over three hours.
Both spaces were designated by the state legislatures and the one in SC lost voting spaces every year it became more progressive.
@sheseala It's easy to see how people are discouraged from voting.
You absolutely have the right to not vote.
But you aren't protesting anything.
You're saying it isn't important enough for you to choose a side and that you're confident you won't be impacted by any political change.