Voters are the Downfall

Votes of the people are becoming less and less prominent in today's society. People do not fairly vote, nor do they know anything about U.S. Government or the Presidential policies. The votes that are counted in the election are not actually the real number so it's not intelligent to count them. Something needs to be done about the unfairness, and fast.

Cheating is very popular in voting for the President. There are many cases of people registering many times, some as high as one hundred or more. These people most commonly register deceased family members, but also with fake identities, new identities, and many other creative ways. How could a country count these votes? They clearly are not fair votes, and although they realize this is happening, there is not much that can be done at this time. However, those that they do catch are convicted of a felony since this is such a big issue. In some states there are more registered voters than there are eligible people to vote. How could such an obvious thing happen? What I really don't understand is how the system does not realize how people are registering people who have passed away, or people that never existed in the first place. In the very near future, there needs to be new technology to separate real votes from fraud votes.

Another issue in voting is the fact that nobody really knows what they are talking about. On the radio the other day someone interviewed a bunch of Obama supporters. He went up to them and asked if they were voting for him and when all said that they were, he went on to ask even more questions. The interviewer began to list all of McCain's policies and asked if the people agreed with all of those policies. Having no idea about the Presidential policies, they said things like "Oh yeah, I agree with all of that", "Yeah of course", and "Yeah, Obama has a great plan". But what these people did not realize was that the interviewer tricked them into admitting they had no education about politics or the Government. They didn't support Obama because of his "changes" or policies because they didn't even know what the policies were. If they were so strongly supporting McCain's policies, then maybe they have the wrong presidential candidate. And that is the sad part about all of the voters in America-most of them do not know much or anything about the candidates. They vote for who their friends and family are voting for, who their college professor is voting for, who is most popular, who people like them are voting for. But not many people are actually voting for the policies. How can we let people like this decide the president and the future of this country? These people should have no say at all in who the president is. Listening to that interview scared me and really made me think about the people who vote.