I couldn’t agree more, especially if you are Muslim.
Here are two post from Darvish on the subject:

If You Dont Vote, You Dont Count!

http://darvish.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/if-you-dont-vote-you-dont-count/

Election Day Thought:

http://darvish.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/election-day-thought/

Ya Haqq!

Predictably, some idiots put up “voting=shirk” arguments on their blogs, so I ended up writing about that shit. God, I’m sick of the people

How in the world can someone connote voting with shirk? Oy Allah.

I’m waiting to see if John Sweeney is out up here in Saratoga. He is considered one of the most corrupt congressmen in office. He also beats his wife and is a drunk, oh Sweeney how we love thee! I voted for the person opposing him, you know what I mean?

I must admit I did not vote for Hilary. Couldn’t do it. She’s done nothing for upstate NY. Nothing for gender issues. She’ll win overwhelmingly, I just want her to know I did not vote for her.

New York is cool cause we have open ballots. This means that we can vote for a democrat/republican but by way of the working families party/libertarian or some such. This means these other parties get enough votes to stay on the ballot and run their own candidates in smaller races where they have a chance. My sensible self knows that we are one of two states who do this and the US will never have multi-party systems, nor is open balloting going to give us multi-party systems…....alright. Aw, I’m feeling defeated again…..maybe voting is a sin? A sin because voting leads to despair?

I’ll report back on Sweeney.

‘...some idiots put up “voting=shirk” arguments on their blogs, so I ended up writing about that shit. God, I’m sick of the people’DA

I believe in voting. That being said, DA, do not you think they may have a point? These people sense of morality (as translated into laws etc) lies outside them, i.e., in texts, traditions etc. Voting places the source of laws and in a sense, the moral dimension in the individual. The Christian right oppose abortions partly because of that type of reasoning..

DA, do you see the logic behind the statement: voting=shirk.

I think this is way they saw it.

The logic of thier point is wholly irrelevant. Its the harmful result of thier statements that invalidates their call to action. Let them choose for themselves as they wish, but the very nature of thier statement is coercive, designed to persuade Muslims to not participate in any system in which these people are not in charge, whatever they say about making Allah as the chief of thier fanciful political system.

- A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

Oh well, I’m so not worried about non-voters at the moment- ‘cause Massachusetts has a brother for a governor! Woo-hoo!

‘Let them choose for themselves as they wish, but the very nature of thier statement is coercive, designed to persuade Muslims to not participate in any system…‘Omarg

Your statement is toxic! not designed to appeal to the market of ideas. The logic behind their argument is functional; their logic shiels them from being labeled: nuts.
I do not buy what they are calling for myself, however, the logic works for them. You do not like it, do not adopt it. Others may think and act that way; let it be, accept diversity.

Logic? Lots of things can be “logical”, however subjective you use the term, here. But, as a I said, its apparent logic is irrelevant. Me toxic in this matter? Any call that casts refusers as mushriks is truly toxic; let not your grudge against me lead you to give them a free pass. Such people should be suppressed for making takfir on people who vote. They seek harm for whomsoever refuses to abide by them. That makes them fair game in my book. Its huntin’ season, y’all.

- A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

Omarg:

you dislike them to the degree you look like them.

they do takfir to those who vote; you want to suppress them.

your thinking and theirs are the two sides of the same coin.

Oppression of the right is just as wrong as oppression of the left.

*do you mean ‘it is’ when you write ‘its’? part of the reason why your thinking is screwed up???

>>they do takfir to those who vote; you want to suppress them.

And

>>your thinking and theirs are the two sides of the same coin.

Your argument betrays a classically unsustainable ill-liberalism. It is not possible to tolerate people who want to oppress me, especially when they claim Allah tells them to do it. Such people must be stopped, else they will spread fitna as they’re ideological bretheren in the jihadi movements are already doing. Your paralysis against them will be your undoing. Are you sure you’re not one of them masquerading?? I think you are: its a classic that Islamists masquerade as liberals in order to get the pressure off of them and open the way for thier agenda. What’s your agenda?

- A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

Omarg, you are hopeless. Why do you not read about McCarthyism before exposing your ignorance futher than you have.

Not only that center, ****, etc….

Note to GMasala:  I love the irony of your critique of Jordan below.  Cut out the crazy language.  

So what if he's a "brother"? You vote for people because of their skin color? Should I vote only for Jewish candidates then?

Note to Jordan:  I deleted your last sentence.  Keep your arguments to content and not to personal attack.  

You’re way out of line Jordan. Clean yourself up before someone else does.

I’m willing to make an exception for Omar. The guy is too fucked up to be left alone.

Feeling lonely on this fine Jum’ah?

- A Salafi in worship, a Sufi in society, a Secularist in government.

Naw dude. Why? You going to send your immigrant wife for a sleep over? I’ll pass.