Think skipping the ballot sends a message? The math says it does the opposite.
A personal anecdote illustrates how voting for an opposing candidate is twice as effective as abstaining, reducing a current officeholder's margin by two votes, writes James W. Priester of Lakewood in a letter to the editor.
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