Sports fans make endless projections. However, games are played in their entirety regardless of projected outcomes. Just as I did not stop pulling for Duke, responsible citizens vote anyway until the polls close. Even though their presidential candidate may be a lost cause, they support that candidate anyway. Their other favorite candidates may well have a chance.
Responsible citizens know the importance of voting.
The problem lies with the millions of Americans who are just too plain dirt lazy to get out to the polls. No law can fix this. Some conservatives want to pander to them by blaming the networks for this non-voting and passing vacuous new laws. This is paternalistic feel-goodism at its worst. Two hundred years ago, Samuel Adams had even better words for those who will not go to the slightest inconvenience to exercise those rights in defense of which so much blood has been spilled.