My Mother Is A Fish

Rothbard here (1/4 of the way down the page) helps solidify my thinking on voting. It is true that we are placed in a coercive position, and allowed at most a very limited choice, but "[s]ince you are in this coercive situation, there is no reason why you shouldn't try to make use of it if you think it will make a difference to your liberty or possessions." It is not a truly voluntary system--and so the anti-voting people are wrong to suggest that the public is really behind it and that therefore to oppose the system one must oppose the voting.

Also, he is good in pointing out that the anti-voting people often have a disguised agenda of opposing the endorsement of candidates, as well as the voting for them: "Will he cheer slightly or groan more as whoever wins? I don't see how anybody could fail to have a preference, because it will affect all of us."