Please google 'Election Boycott' and you will see that this tactic is frequently used
world-wide to delegitimize governments and to go up against electoral fraud.

What is ineffective is wasting your vote on a guaranteed loser.

There is something that we can do. Something nonviolent, legal, risk-free, and with the potential to delegitimize the government.

Notice that I didn't say overthrow, abolish, or replace it, but just delegitimize it. That would be a change--for people in the US to say that our government's policies don't represent us and we won't vote for a government that doesn't represent us.- Mark E Smith

I know Chris Hedges has been talking about this recently. I believe he is of the opinion that people should stop voting altogether. This will remove the last shreds of respectability from the corrupt revolving door system of left/right politics.

He argues that it would be far better to engage in massive, peaceful public protest and action. The immediate and violent way in which OWS was put down, I think, shows the fear that the system has about people being empowered and lends credence to his thoughts.
 

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”

      Emma Goldman