Politics and voting are violence they define and enacts laws, and they are maintained with force, but that doesn't mean you should go the route of a "principled" defeat with people who want to aim the guns of the state at yourself.

That being said I don't think voting will be effective at creating a legitimate state any longer as well, but I'm not for anarchism either, we don't need another french revolution we need an enlightenment liberal Anglo-Saxon revolution, we need an American revoltuion.