Who has the best voting procedure - U.S. Presidential Election or American Idol?

Question

Do you ever wonder why Ohio accounts for equal weight to New York?

If the votes are tallied by land mass - and Texas has the most rich, white, right-wingers owning large pieces of ranch-land... then do they get too much voting power in America?

If our voting system was actually done by a popular vote, like say... American Idol (except not on Fox, please) - then would that be more accurate?

Will - I copied this just for you from Wikipedia:

An electoral college is a set of electors, who are empowered as a deliberative body to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these electors represent a different organization or entity with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. Many times, though, the electors are simply important persons whose wisdom, it is hoped, would provide a better choice than a larger body. The system can ignore the wishes of a general membership whose thinking may not be considered. When applied on a national scale, such as the election of a country's leader, the popular vote can on occasion run counter to the electoral college's vote, and for this reason there are some who feel that the system is a distortion of true democracy in a democratic society.

You are wrong. Gore won the popular vote and Bush is our President.

Answer 1

Yes definitely American Idol.
(with one proviso: you'd need to install some caller I.D. software to prevent people voting more than once for any specific vote)
The elections would have to be in stages as in American Idol where all the party's candidates (Democrat, Republican, greens, socialist, libertarian etc) would have their ten minutes on stage to present their platforms and then the voters would vote off the least popular each week.
This way the supporters of the greens, socialists etc would still get a vote on the final night.

and.... the loser each week would be promised a consolation prize of going on Leno the following night.

Answer 2

More people vote for American Idol then they do for state and federal elections. How sad is that? It would be more fair if it worked that way but unfortunately we're stuck with the electoral college so our votes don't really count anyway.

Answer 3

Presidential elections. In American Idol, some people vote hundreds of time. In US elections, even the most rabid Dem partisans only vote a couple of dozen.

Answer 4

Gore DID NOT win the popular vote that MYTH is based on PRELIMINARY totals released BEFORE absentee vote were counted. Historically, absentee ballots lean heavily Republican. Because the numbers were not enough to change the overall total in any one state, most OFFICIAL results including absentee ballots are NEVER reported in the media. George W Bush won the actual popular vote.

Answer 5

It's a lot easier to vote in American Idol than it is voting for office, but public elections need to be controlled and monitored more stringently than Idol does or cares to.

Answer 6

Our voting system at http://www.voteprimous.com/evoting.aspx because we received voters from California even from American Idol fans. Our voting system is free for all and proven to reflect voters' concerns about better abuse laws. a voting system that gave Madison Augustine Primus 52% in the recent Presidential Polls. Voters approved of the system by 78%.

Answer 7

The electoral college gives out votes based on population gathered by the US Census, not by land mass.