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Voting is kind of like buying lottery tickets in this regard, a waste of perfectly good hope. It really is a silly ritual which I'm dismayed some rationalists still take seriously.
My advice is finding higher quality entertainment.
I don't vote for hope or because I expect my actions to cause a change in outcome. I vote primarily because it feels good, but also because I have a policy of cooperating rather than defecting when it doesn't cost too much.
In other words, I vote for the same reasons my internal model of Douglas Hofstadter would vote if it could.