Interesting! Just to make sure I understand this. It isn’t posted publicly, though, right? It is just a private mailing to you?
I agree with this and, sort of covering all three of your points, there are probably people who think that anyone Stupid-Enough-to-vote is some sort of naïve, Pollyannaish chump and that those “in the know” who understand “how things really work” know that there’s no point. So for those folks shame would bolster their self-images.
Yes, that’s right. I found this link to something similar that you may find interesting.
A few who come to mind, both present and recent.
Mike Madigan (among many others) in Illinois.
And the three members of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen (including the President of the Board) who resigned after being caught taking bribes.
Then there’s Anthony Weiner. That one goes back a few years, but it’s especially distasteful. Ditto John Edwards
Once again, I’m not on the shame wagon for this thread, however, you don’t have to vote for any of the “usual pack of crooks”, you can vote third party or leave it blank. The important part is that you showed up.
Showing up and turning in a blank ballot is a statement that you want higher quality candidates, and if enough people do the same, you may get them. Not showing up just tells them that you are lazy and that your needs and wants can be safely ignored.
But there is.
It isn’t.
If you go to pretty much any board of elections site, you can order voter lists, that will tell you who voted and what party they are registered with.
Politics is local. Your vote does matter as to who your city council or mayor is, who is on your school board, or who are your city and county judges. And those positions will have a much greater impact on your life than the president.
It used to be, and maybe still is, that you could go to my local board of elections site and do a lookup by address to see if someone voted. I can’t find the link for it though, so that function may no longer be valid, and I don’t know if other BOEs did so at all.
But you absolutely can order the list of voters.
Most of them resigned after their scandals came out, so you wouldn’t have the option of voting for them.
I agree. Even so, if I’m a bleeding-heart liberal, living in a deep-red city in a deep-red state, I may still feel that no one I vote for (even for local offices) is going to get elected.
But both parties are not equal in shamelessness. One party is ninety percent shameless and one party is ten percent shameless.
So if people can’t vote for a party that’s perfect, they should vote for the party that’s better. That’s the way we make progress.
It doesn’t. IMHO we’re actually in the middle of an experiment showing that it makes things worse. That first group is where Trump is getting his support, although shame / embarrassment wasn’t the emotion that brought them out in '20 and '22.
The irony is that we’re in the middle of the highest voter participation ever if you account for the fact that Black people and women weren’t allowed to vote in the old days. Even if you ignore that, we haven’t had this high a percentage of voter participation since back in the Roosevelt administration. And I don’t mean Franklin.
If we’re going to try the experiment of coercing electoral participation with negative emotions, stop half-assing it and go for the tried-and-true favorite: fear.
Have you seen political ads lately? They’ve been there for some time. 
The decision to not vote is also a vote, of a sort. The issue may not be important enough, the candidates may not be inspiring. For whatever reasons that people chose to not vote, that is also a vote.
Right, they are saying that they don’t matter, and that their needs should be ignored.
They didn’t resign because they were ashamed. If they had been capable of shame they wouldn’t have taken bribes and had relationships with their staff members in the first place.
Which has nothing to do with the OP, shaming people into voting.
A blank ballot does nothing. Unless the ballot has a “none of the above” box to check, it doesn’t matter.
The way to get more people to vote is to run candidates that people want to vote for, not to try to shame them into voting.
I didn’t say that they did. I said that people didn’t vote for them after the scandals came out.
You may not like it, but the choice to not vote, is a real choice, a vote.
I didn’t say I didn’t like it, I gave no opinion about it. I said that people who don’t vote don’t matter. They have, as you said, voted that they should be ignored. That is the choice that they have made.
If we are voting on what we are having for dinner tonight, and you choose not to vote, then no one is going to care that you don’t like what we chose without you.
Ahhh, but when my pizza arrives y’all are going to want a slice.
Evolution?
Let’s get married and have a baby?
The hubris of “I am an educated voter and it is my prerogative to determine the fate of all” converges to tyranny.