Well, after giving it a second thought, I suppose Lemmy may be small enough to avoid be targeted with both domestic and foreign efforts to favor Trump by having part of left demographics abstain.

If that's indeed the case, there's nothing I agree with in the suggested rule.

Voting/Abstention can be manufactured to a certain point. But if we take that away, it's a matter of strategy. I've always been an abstentionist.

(my two replies may display in the wrong order, this is the latest one)

Imho, voting is a right, not a duty. It's as stupid to try to convince people to vote than the other way round. What I was thinking about when I wrote my message is, well, the probability of a coordinated effort from right wing networks to turn left leaning demographics away from voting. This, I agree, would make some kind of anticipation measures useful.

What I fundamentally disagree on, and actually a bit more than "disagree", is the idea that abstention leads us where when are now. As a political science professor, I'll just say it goes against most, if not all, contemporary research findings.

(And yes, I can be a professor and have trouble writing correct English. To the brilliant mind who may want to phrase such witty comment, consider for a second that I may very well be from a non-English speaking country. Those still exist to this day)