The people that vote should be the people that keep informed and care about the outcome. I wouldn't want people that are completely ignorant about politics to have the same say as the educated. Every stupid vote cancels out an intelligent one, and I think the dumb people hold the majority. Education should be a voting requirement. --Garland

This is a good point too. I forget where I read it, but imagine the case where there was a little control panel in every house in the country, and on every issue you just voted yes or no by pressing a button and a huge computer would count the millions of votes, and that's how our government was run. That would be a true democracy, and it would fail horribly, as most people would probably agree; most people aren't nearly informed or intelligent enough to be able to make important decisions.

What we have, a representative democracy, is supposedly better because we pick the most able among us to vote on issues for us, and to tell us what to do. The problem, as Garland said, is still there though; the stupid people are still voting to pick the smart people, and if people are too stupid to directly vote on the issues, why do we consider them smart enough to vote on who gets to vote on the issues? Beats me.