Nonvoting is exactly stupid. The Sunnis in Iraq intentionally boycotted the first election to claim it was illegitimate and they spent 8 years in a full throated insurgency because they had intentionally removed all of their political options off the table. The loosing party was criminalized, and was replaced by Al-Qaeda in Iraq. That didn't help the Sunnis because AQI had no problem killing them just as much as they killed the government.

After the Sunni Great Awakening Movement efforts to get the Sunnis back into a political process, they won elections as a minority and rebuffed a bunch of dumb shit from the now fully pro-Iranian government.

Another election was held after several years of peace, but this time Fallujah and a lot of the Sunnis were upset that they gained seats, but lost a majority. There was definitely bullshit done by the government, possibly fraud, to guarantee that loss. But instead of repeated each mistake again. This time they worked with ISIS and got slaughtered again by the same people again because AQI actually formed ISIS.

Now they are back in the government and voting, but seem to have figured out that refusing to vote, and then shooting at people, isn't really an optimal strategy, especially when the people who are going to "help" you fight the government intend to kill you first.

It is correct that you should not be voting against certain people, but only voting for the things you want so you don't keep putting idiots (like the Tories in UK) into power. Refusing to vote at all is retarded and dangerous.