Idea of how you can change voting to get more accurate representation

[Razard86]

The current system of voting does not allow for the public to put into office politicians who adequately represent their values. Combine this with the lack of voter education/information on the platform of the candidates and you have a recipe for disaster. Currently for the Presidency we have the Electoral College where you vote for representatives in a secret ballot to vote on your behalf I have a modification to that system which will improve it.

There needs to be a vote system that asks you questions about the platform that is being campaigned for and where you stand for or against. Each question should be specific such as do you support tax cuts on small businesses or corporations, and do you support more money going to domestic infrastructure or to foreign aid etc.

It should end with you choosing which platform issues are most important to you. This system will then tally which candidates platform you voted for the most and that will be the candidate that will get your vote. This will stop candidates from winning off of name recognition, and force candidates to spend more time educating the voter base on their plan for their political term in office and less on political drama that the media likes to feed into. This is how you create a system that creates an informed public.

The only barriers to this system is the comfortability with the news media in feeding the political drama and them enjoying the advertisement revenue that comes from each political cycle. Outside of the entertainment value that comes from our current system it is a system that doesn't allow for proper representation or for the inclusion of the best potential candidates. Right now it is just a popularity contest, and has proven to be an insufficient system.