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
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