[Aristophanes]

Your reading comprehension is as poor as your logic. I did not say that I did not vote.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I did not say that I did not vote.

The duty to participate requires voting for the highest office. Frankly, if you live in a state in which the presidential vote was not certain ahead of time, I think that not voting, or casting a protest vote, were two forms of abstention. In either case, the duty to participate was not performed.