But when least expected, the non-voter may be let go from their job as no longer needed. A counter-revolutionary is less so, if he votes. So, of course, all law-breakers vote as do or try to do all sorts of dissidents and others generally critical of the system. That may be morally questionable but it is a way to lessen the personal consequences and the repression they would otherwise be subject to. The governors encourages this duplicity and benefit from it.
Most people realize the elections mean very little in their day to day lives.
Certainly the candidates elected hardly have any say in the legislative process which follows those elections. The real power to legislate, judge and execute is in other hands, not in those elected to the assembly. But, as if this parody of democracy were not already bad enough, some electoral colleges use fraud. This is particularly the case where opponents speak openly of their decision not to vote. An attempt is made to purge their names from the list of voters.