Learned Hand, on voting:

I don't know how it is with you, but for myself I generally give up at the outset. The simplest problems which come up from day to day seem to me quite unanswerable as soon as I try to get below the surface... My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquiaint myself with the matters on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.