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In case there is any doubt about how the leftist Gelderloos really feels about voting and polling places, here is exactly what he said:

In very general terms, I think the most important place to be is protecting the anti-racist movement, which is currently the most radical expression of struggle. Protecting polling places should probably be left to progressive de-escalation activists, both to give them the opportunity to see if they actually have the organizational capacity to make their own chosen strategies viable rather than just attacking real social movement participants for being “violent,” and because of the certainty that if anarchists are present at any polling place where there is unrest, the Democrats will try to pin the blame on us.

Gelderloos the leftist sees voting (for the right candidate, of course) as part of a broader social struggle, instead of as one of the institutions that needs to be challenged and destroyed. His only caveat is that "protecting polling places" should be delegated to the less radical elements of the struggle, so that anarchists don't get blamed by Democrats (heaven forbid!) if there is any "unrest".