I don't think voting is completely useless like a lot of people here do. I do think abstaining from voting is completely useless. Even if the media is rigging the elections by controlling narratives, and the parties are rigging primaries so you only get a choice between two stooges, you still get to make a choice about what the lesser evil is. And sometimes someone slips through the cracks that truly wants to make the country better and isn't as easily corrupted as the rest of them.