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Isn't some form of Twin Prisoner's Dilemma here? Not in the payoffs, but in the fact you can assume your decision (to vote or not) is correlated to some degree with others' decision (which it should be if you, and some of them, make that decision rationally).
To my mind this is the most compelling reason to vote. If you're rational and you want more rational people to vote, then you should vote, because then they will too (assuming a reasonable number of rational people have similar relevant information to your own).
To make things worse, if there's a multiverse, if you're correlated with some people in the same universe as you then you're also correlated with a humongous number of people in different universes (far more humongous than the number of actual copies of you).
I would love to see a get-out-the-vote campaign based on telling potential voters that the fate of the multiverse depends on them.
When you're not being awesome, your lack of awesome is correlated with all of the lack of awesome in the entire multiverse.