General Election 2010

If you believe you have a civic responsibility to vote, and you're planning to not vote as a protest, than spoil your ballot. I think I've only ever voted properly in two elections (Canada also has a Single member plurality/First-past-the-post federal system) - the first time I voted, and in the recent EU election (as it's PR).

People will often say spoiling your ballot doesn't matter/achieves nothing, but as they are counted, a statistically large percentage of spoilt ballots would most certainly result in debate, if nothing else (a debate about voter dissatisfaction is better than a debate about voter apathy, which none-voting will look like. One gives us discussion about electoral reform, the other gives us ads on TV with rock starts telling us to "rock the vote"!).

Might go the spoiler route then. I've voted for extreme minority parties the last couple of times, those whose policies/sensibilities I felt most aligned with. Net result = massive fuck all.