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Commenting on 'Seriously What's the Point?'

Though you haven't completely given up on the idea of voting, your arguments are drawing you further and further away from actually getting up and going through the process in the fall! Voting is definitely worth both your time and energy because ultimately your vote does count in choosing the next leader of our nation. If everyone feels like they don't need to be going out to vote because it's senseless, then the elections might turn into a process where the minority wins, instead of the well-liked majority winning.

I do understand your argument that the society is turning into one that is machine-driven, and it makes it seem like the people are the lazy, but could you imagine trying to find enough individuals to go through millions of ballots by hand? This would take such a large amount of time that the voting process would have to start even sooner. It takes roughly a day to tally votes, and that is through the process of speedy machines, if we used people, there is no telling what type of problems might arise! Even careless mistakes such as misreading a bubble, or skipping over a ballot could cause such a huge, dramatic issue. You say that it's harder to depend on a machine rather than a human, but machines are simply programmed to do what the human tells it to do and ONLY what the human tells it to do, so if they make a mistake, the human should be the one to blame. Also, though voting machines are expensive, if we used human labor, this would also cost a large sum of money because there would have to be a large amount of people helping count votes, demanding a reasonable salary. Overall, I believe that the machines susceptibility to flaws is just as great as humans'. In fact, I think that the machines are less susceptible simply because they've been reliable in the past, and if we switched over, chaos is very likely to be a result.

I completely agree with your arguments about the electoral college. Is an electoral college even necessary in the first place if the voting is already such a lengthy process that involves the nation's majority vote, instead of the ultimate decision of a different group of people? America tries hard to get everyone involved in voting because 'your vote counts', yet they give a committee the right to ultimately decide whom the winner should be. We might as well turn over all the major decisions to the electoral college if they have the power to choose the leader of our nation. The government should really listen to peoples' opinions of the electoral college because I think there are a lot of unhappy Americans.

Ultimately, the voting process is important, and you should take the time and energy to embark in it. I know that counting machines and the electoral college are putting a damper on your spirits, but it's worth it to be a part of the population who helped decide who the next leader of our nation will be.