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While I can't speak on a greek matter, as I've never been involved in a voting situation that I can recall, I can speak from a student government perspective. We abstained from voting for four main reasons:
1. You don't care one way or the other about the outcome of the vote.
2. You don't have enough information about the motion to vote for or against it.
3. You don't want documentation of you having "chose sides," i.e., go "on the record" as being a voter for or against a motion.
4. You want to piss people off.*
*This may not be a definite reason, but I know we chose this measure based on principle when our democratic process broke down. We knew that whether the majority voted for/against a motion, the president was going to do what he/she wanted to do anyway, so a started abstaining from the voting.
The first three are basically the main reasons I know of people abstaining.
I also know that I have snapped on a person or two that kept on talking though chose to abstain. My philosphy is that if you don't say anything when it's time to argue or dispute a motion, shut the hell up if it passes.
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