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Originally posted by jordanjm
because it's a well known fact that when more people vote the Democrats tend to win. Go on YouTube you can find many speeches from Republicans themselves backing up that statement also that is why we are seeing more voter suppression tactics such as cutting hours to create huge lines that people have to take off work just to vote.
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I know, but it really can still work both ways. Even if it were true that Democrats tend to win if more people are voting, it doesn't mean that it's because more people are uneducated in their votes. Maybe it just means that more people truly are Democrat than Republican in the country. I know people on both sides of the fence that are voting for a certain candidate for no reason other than because their mom or their sister or their friend is voting that way. Can people not form an opinion of their own? Do they really just not care? It blows my mind.
I've always kind of wanted some kind of voting system where you don't choose an actual candidate. Each candidate has their policies and their strategy and I think it would be interesting if voters were presented with a series of 20 important questions. And each answer will be associated with a certain politician. Each subject could be allotted a certain amount of weight in the overall scores, but the real point is that the politician whose policies and plans receive the most votes is the one that gets elected. That way, people are making an actual decision on a subject that's important to them, and it's a much more involved election than simply voting for one person whether you know what they stand for or not and allowing them so much control. It will never happen and maybe it sounds crazy, and certainly it would have it's flaws, but I would much rather something like this.
