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Paper itself also acknowledges:
"abstaining from voting is only a move in one of those games […] It is not a move in the game that signals a voter’s preferred policies.”
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More relevant still:
"The problem with voter abstention is that abstention may more strongly signal apathy than whatever message the
abstainer wants to send. As long as apathetic non-voters significantly outnumber ideological abstainers, the abstainers signal apathy by not voting.”
Given that 36% were non-voters in the last election, this seems to be the situation we're in.
