Subject: Re: 1968 Chicago Democrat Convention Redux?
Your vote actually has an effect in the world - a very tiny one, but one that (in connection with everyone else's votes) determines the outcome of an election. The responsibility for that effect doesn't just lie in the candidates. Some of it rests with the voter who decides what to do with their vote.

Exactly. Casting a vote in an election isn't at all the same as expressing a mere opinion in a poll or survey. Both are expressions or free speech, of course, but election votes have real world consequences (as is frequently proclaimed), whereas poll/opinion votes do not.