• leave voting issues with the states and localities, where the Constitution puts it
• carefully resist calls to implement computer voting systems

• ELECTION LAWS (LP)
• ELECTION REFORM (CalifLP)
• Electoral Madness
• Election Guardians
• High-tech election fiascos
• Scoop: Voting Machines Blasted by Scientists

Does Voting Matter?
Should You Vote At All?

• I Don't Mind If You Keep Voting, But Do You Mind If I Keep Laughing While You Do?
• The Lesser of Two Evils Leonard Read
• “McBama vs. America” by Craig Biddle
• The Value of Voting
• I Won't Vote! Donald J. Boudreaux
• Why your vote doesn't matter
• Strike-the-Root.com Non-Voting Archive
• Two Choices for President by Mark Thornton
• Why I Don’t Vote by Mark Reynolds
• The Myth of the Wasted Vote by Charles L. Hooper
• Your Vote Counts by Robert Klassen
• Picking Neither of Two Evils, Part 2 by Bob Murphy
• But Whom Will You Root For? by Wally Conger
• Voting is Evil by Brad Edmonds
• Voting—Again by Robert Klassen
• Rock the Non-Vote, Part 1 by Gene Callahan
• Rock the Non-Vote, Part 2 by Gene Callahan
• Voting for the Lesser of Two Police States by Anthony Gregory
• The Voting Ritual by Butler Shaffer
• Austro-Athenian Empire » In Defense of Voting (sort of), Part 2
• It's Time to Get Passionate About Not Voting

• Does Your Vote Really Count? | The New American

A Non-Voting Bibliography
Compiled by Wilton Alston

For general theory on non-voting and political party involvement, see:

• the late Samuel Edward Konkin III, so-called agorist, founder of The Movement of the Libertarian Left, author of The New Libertarian Manifesto (PDF), editor of the magazine New Libertarian, coiner (in 1971) of the term “minarchy.”
• the late Robert LeFevre, founder of the Freedom School and Rampart College .
• Ronald N. Neff, editor of the (currently exclusively online) magazine The Last Ditch.
• George H. Smith, Carl Watner,  and Wendy McElroy (her website), the three founders of the magazine The Voluntaryist (old web site), currently edited by Watner.

For specific articles on non-voting (with some pro-con debate), see:

• Wilton D. Alston, “Legitimizing Voting: A Modest Proposal”, Strike-the-Root.com.
• Anonymous, “Why I Refuse to Register (to Vote or Pay Taxes)”, The Voluntaryist, no. 100 (October 1999).  (Also available here.)
• Raymond William [“Bill”] Bradford, “Voting Is No Sin”, Liberty, November 1996. (A response to McElroy’s “Why I Would Not Vote…Even Against Hitler”)
• Richard O. Hammer, “Is it Wise to Vote?  Getting My Head Ready for Freedom”
• Jacob G. Hornberger, “Five Questions to Ronald N. Neff”, With Mr. Ronald N. Neff’s reply, “Ron Neff replies.”  The Last Ditch, February 3, 2002 .
• Samuel Edward Konkin III, “The Damnation of Bill Bradford”, New Libertarian. (A response to Bradford ’s “Voting Is No Sin”)
• Roderick T. Long, “Dismantling Leviathan from Within. Part I: Can We? Should We?”, Formulations, vol. 2, no. 4 (Issue no. 8) (Summer 1995).  (Also available here.)
• Roderick T. Long, “Dismantling Leviathan from Within. Part II: The Process of Reform”, Formulations, vol. 3, no. 1 (Issue no. 9) (Autumn 1995).  (Also available here.)
• Roderick T. Long, “Dismantling Leviathan from Within. Part III: Is Libertarian Political Action Self-Defeating?”, Formulations, vol. 3, no. 2 (Issue no. 10) (Winter 1995–1996).  (Also available here.)
• Roderick T. Long, “Dismantling Leviathan from Within. Part IV: The Sons of Brutus.” Formulations, vol. 3, no. 3 (Issue no. 11) (Spring 1996).  (Also available here.)
• Wendy McElroy, “Neither Bullets nor Ballots”, The Voluntaryist, no. 1 (October 1982). (Also available here.) Reprinted (“in slightly alterered form”) as Introduction to Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy & George H. Smith, Neither Bullets nor Ballots: Essays on Voluntaryism (Voluntaryists, 1983).  (Also available here.)
• Wendy McElroy, “Climbing Off the Bandwagon”, The Voluntaryist, no. 3 (February 1983).  (Also available here and here.)
• Wendy McElroy, “Why I Would Not Vote…Even Against Hitler”, Liberty, May 1996. Reprinted in The Voluntaryist, no. 85 (April 1997).  (Reprint version also available here and here.)
• Stefan Molyneux, “My Son: Klan Reformer”, Strike-the-Root.com.  (This is a personal favorite of mine.)
• Ronald N. Neff, “Oh, sure . . . your vote matters!” The Last Ditch,  November 8, 2000 .
• Ronald N. Neff, “Why I am not a Libertarian”, The Last Ditch,  November 28, 2000 .
• Ronald N. Neff, “Ron Paul’s Gift”, The Last Ditch, September 19, 2001 .
• Ronald N. Neff, “Fifty Ron Pauls and the Government with Only One Law”, The Last Ditch, September 19, 2001 .  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.
• Hans Sherrer, “Non-Voting as an Act of Secession”, The Voluntaryist, no. 114 (3^rd Quarter 2002).  (Also available here.)
• George H. Smith, “The Ethics of Voting — Part I”, The Voluntaryist, no. 1 (October 1982).  (Also avaliable here.)
• George H. Smith, “The Ethics of Voting — Part II”, The Voluntaryist, no. 2 (December 1982).  (Also available here.)
• George H. Smith, “The Ethics of Voting — Part III”, The Voluntaryist, no. 4 (April 1983).  (Also available here.)
• George H. Smith, “Party Dialogue”, New Libertarian, vol. IV, no. 8 (December 1980–February 1981). Reprinted in Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy & George H. Smith, Neither Bullets nor Ballots: Essays on Voluntaryism (Voluntaryists, 1983).
• Joe Sobran. “How to Vote for Liberty”, Sobran’s: The Real News of the Month,
• October 26, 2004 . Reprinted in The Voluntaryist, no. 126 (3^rd quarter 2005).  (Reprint version also available here.)
• Geoff Turecek. “An Open Letter to Voters: Please Don't”, Strike-the-Root.com.
• Carl Watner. “Cultivate Your Own Garden: No Truck with Politics”, The Voluntaryist, no. 40 (October 1989).  (Also available here.)
• Carl Watner. “Harry Browne — Have You Forgotten?: "The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil"”, The Voluntaryist, no. 85 (April 1997).  (Also available here.)
• Carl Watner. “Is Voting an Act of Violence?” The Voluntaryist, no. 103 (April 2000). (Also available here.)
Even more articles may be reached via online repositories:
• The Against Politics Web page “The Calculus of Voting”
• The LewRockwell.com Non-Voting Archive.  (Butler Shaffer, among others, has some great stuff in this archive!)
• The No Treason Voting Archive.
• The Strike The Root Non-Voting Archive.  (Several, but not all, of the articles noted here can be found in this archive!)
• The Voluntaryist’s list of “Additional essays related to non-voting and The Dissenting Electorate.”
• Books on non-voting include:
• Sy Leon. None of the Above: The Lesser of Two Evils . . . Is Evil.  (With an Introduction by Harry Browne.)  Fabian Publishing Co., 1976.
• Sy Leon. None of the Above: Why Non-Voters Are America’s Political Majority. 2^nd ed., rev. ed. (re-titled) with a new Introduction by John Pugsley. Fox & Wilkes, 1996.
• Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy & George H. Smith. Neither Bullets nor Ballots: Essays on Voluntaryism. Voluntaryists, 1983. (See also, The Voluntaryist bibliography.)
• Carl Watner, ed. I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist 1982–1999 (PDF). San Francisco, California: Fox & Wilkes, 1999.  Table of Contents and Other Material.
• Carl Watner with Wendy McElroy, eds. Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition (Introduction Only)  (Also available here.) McFarland & Company, 2000.  Table of Contents, along with some other material, available here.

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