I'm teaching at the IHS "Exploring Liberty" Summer Seminar at Yale this week. During Mark LeBar's lecture on what we should expect from government, we had an excellent discussion of legitimacy, consent, and participation. Here are some links on voting that I posted last month.

1. "Debate: Does My Vote Matter?" at Opposingviews.com. I was really disappointed in this because the other side of the debate (Rock the Vote and the League of Women Voters) didn't offer anything meaningful or substantive. Nor did they respond to any of my claims or criticisms of their positions.

2. Politics 2.0: Hack the Vote at Lifehack.org.

3. The (Il)logic of Collective Action: Lessons from the 2008 Election at The Beacon.

4. Forget Polls: Look at Prediction Markets on the Election, also at The Beacon.

5. Don Boudreaux explains his refusal to vote for The Freeman. Voting isn't the only way to be politically engaged. Especially given the ways in which access to the ballot is limited and political voices are silenced, I'm less and less inclined to think that it's a system that deserves our sanction.

6. Jeff Tucker explains why "Democracy Takes Too Many Lunch Hours" for the Mises Blog.

7. My student Brent Butgereit's winning essay answering my question "Should I vote in the Memphis Mayoral Election?" He compares voting to cheering at a football game.

8. The Cato Institute's Policy Paper version of Bryan Caplan's excellent The Myth of the Rational Voter.