To vote or not to vote?

People tell me I have the right to vote. I think, That's awesome! I love having the option to do things that are potentially influential in life!

People tell me it's my civil duty to vote. I think, I don't want to be forced to do anything I don't want to do. You don't know my life. You don't know my every day struggles!

But for real, I love having the freedom to vote in elections. I don't like being told it's necessary though. Yes, my vote can make a difference. I could cast the ballot that puts one candidate one vote ahead of the other. I am not one of those people who follow the elections closely or watch all the debates. I know who the candidates are, I know their political party affiliation, I somewhat know what issues they're passionate about. I just don't feel interested in politics. Like, at all. I took government my junior year, so I actually have a nice base knowledge about politics and such. It's not that I'm uninformed about that whole process, it's that I feel uninformed about the specific election. Maybe I will take it upon myself to be more involved in the next presidential election, since I will be able to vote. But for now, I will remain uninformed and okay with that. 

I know politics are important. I know I should be more passionate about politics. But I'm not. And I can't just change what I'm passionate about that easily. 

So what if I don't vote? Should I be persecuted for that? I don't believe so. I don't feel that I should vote if I don't know enough about the issues. That's uninformed voting. I could vote for someone just because I recognize the face or like how the candidate's name sounds with "president" in front of it. That's not a good reason to elect someone to be president. 

I could write in someone that I think would be a good president, but then my vote really doesn't matter. I'm fine with having people be involved in politics around me. It's not going to make me more passionate about it though. I'll probably just continue to be uninformed and, therefore, absent at the election. I think uninformed voting is just as bad, or even worse, than not voting. I don't want to offset the election just because "President Newt" sounds stupid.