User blog comment:Dr3sd3n/Why do we vote/@comment-26066905-20150202015437

Humans love to have power and control. Voting is just one of the many things we as Americans do to fool ourselves into believing we have a say in anything; that our one opinion will actually help change the things we want to change, and control the things we want to control if we express or opinion through a ballot. We are ultimately powerless, as we are just one out of 7.2 billion opinions in the world, and we mean nothing to over 7.1 billion of em. Change is often fought over, since we have natural fear and hatred of it.

Or it could just be our mandated constitutional right.