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Capricorn2481 • today at 4:53 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Nope. If you're one of four people voting for something, you have 25% of the voting power.

If you decide to abstain, everyone else's vote is now more valuable, at 33.33%. You have given your voting power to other people, it didn't just disappear. And now whatever the outcome, you are participatory in it.

In the U.S. this matters more on a state level, but it still applies.