Elections! and very little power to people.... just one button?

This is time the worlds biggest democracy to lead the path to improvements of the political system.

Correct elections and political environment is my birth right. People have been fooled by their boundaries of their beliefs to think that they are doing all things in their right and even the most politically aware class of people have not thought of the problems we face in today's world.

The current system of elections is the major part of this problem. This has really limited political expression of people. It has harmed almost all the stakeholders of politics. Voters, candidates, election authorities, media, governing bodies, as well as personal relations of candidates. This is biggest reason in the system so far that has failed to encourage honest and capable people to serve the public and take it as a career with head held high.

The election and government system was developed long time back when the practicality was the biggest hurdle to design a efficient system. The method devised was called 'VOTE'. Everyone has only one vote and the book say every one has to chose one as their representative. Though people would want more than simply choosing their representative, all the other needs were blatantly ignored giving a lot of room to anarchy. Well, what about people's right to make their views heard on political agenda? what about having the right leader of the government body? What about allowing flexibility to the voters to empower them, to ensure that their vote really counts and make a real contribution to the outcome of the election?
All these important questions were ignored. Later these limitations of the system were exploited by anti-social elements to fool people, media, candidates, election systems and grab the power.

All I get to chose now is one candidate, whether there are 2 people contesting or 20, whether I know 4 - 5 best candidates or even all of them. It is like giving a hammer to someone to fix any kind of problem. After so many ears, when you have only hammer to fix any situation, all the situation look like nails.

If you go to write an exam and all the questions need elaborate thinking and descriptive writeup, and instead of a pen, you get a stamp! What would you do? Will you believe that the stamp will enable you write this paper? Of course not. Gone are the days when people had limited knowledge about their problems and political situations. Gone are the days when deriving the outcome of election was designed by practical limitations of human counting limits and mainly focused to get the result by childishly easy method. Whether of not this method would give enough right to the voter was seldom considered. Gone are the days when people could trust candidates to do justice to people after they have elected someone.

To put in simple terms: the current election system doesn't stop the worst candidate win elections. A Condorcet loser can win the elections in the current system. I want my right to stop the worst candidates bending this system in their favor. I want my power to fully evaluate the candidates and exercise my right without these limitations that are now things of past and must be burried.

P.S. If you think current system is the only voting system, do read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system

Changed times!

Times have changed. Few years back, I thought people will be discussing these idea lot more. But the technology awareness was still lacking and somehow I did not see much response.
It could be because of many things. I would have missed something obviously. But the point is that now I do see lot of enthusiasm and participation by general public.

There are many people writing comments and articles at least about political issues, and tricks people observe in the elections.... thanks to recent controversies.
People have started using technology to collaborate more. People are booking taxis over calls and phone apps. Newspaper websites and as usual youtube videos are seeing comment-wars! Citizen journalism is on the rise, various organizations are making their mark despite difficulties and hostilities they face.

Ultimately, I am hoping people collaborate better and work on improving the political scenario here, specially the election system.