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I am mad. Wait, mad might not be the correct word. Perhaps I should have said angry, but does that truly evoke the complete image of my present emotional state? I reckon not. Exasperated, agitated, and resentful come to mind, but again, individually, they all fall short of expressing the complex set of emotions experienced when I feel I have been cheated or stolen from. What makes this compensate more emotionally demoralizing is the fact that those responsible for doing the cheating and stealing do not correct recognize that is what they are doing. So who am I referring to, how are they cheating, and what have they stolen? They are the uninformed voters and they are cheating the system by having the same add together of control in election outcome as those who have taken the time to become involved and knowledgeable about the issues. But what are they stealing? In short my vote. Simply put, due to escape of interest, understanding, and participation in the electoral proces s, uninformed voters who should be awarding their support from a foundation of insight, eagerness and knowledge are instead casting votes even they do not agree with. Ok, so what if a few people get confused and make a wrong vote, just how bad back it be? According to political scientists Richard Lau and David Redlawsk in their book How Voters Decide, the authors find that, in the best case scenario of a choice of two candidates, approximately 70 per centumage of voters choose correctly(Belt 643). Now take a minute to really think about the implications of that statement. In a best case scenario, 30 percent of the voters choice was for someone or something he or she did not even agree with but was too uninformed to know it. nonpareil might ask how could there possibly be this d... ...that regardless of which side of an issue one may support, award that support from a foundation of insight, preparation and knowledge. Somin in his book Democracy and Political Ignorance, and Their Ignorance is willful states,few will take the time and effort to assimilate more than a small amount of political information. For this reason he states elsewhere in his book, we should be grateful that voter turnout is as low as it is, because increased turnout is frequently likely to increase the electoral effects of political ignorance by encouraging the unmotivated to vote (More Media 1).Realizing that all the time and effort I spend to tell apart the issues and candidates positions can be made futile by one uninformed voter, maybe our best hope is, come Election Day, the uniformed voter is so uninformed they will not be able to find the polling location.