Voting and canvassing

Two days ago, the monitor informed the selection of miyoshi students and outstanding class cadres, and everyone enthusiastically signed up. I didn't attend Yanqi Lake, because this year was basically a muddling along. However, in the stage of classmate selection, I saw a lot of furtive canvassing behavior. The person who gets the most votes is not the best, but the person who gets the most votes. I saw that the most beautiful single girl in the class got the most tickets, and the great god who graduated from several colleges in Peking University ate the least tickets. I don't believe this ticket type is the result of natural selection.

Someone once told me that these things are so normal that everyone is doing them. I don't think so: what everyone is doing can only be called universal, not necessarily normal.

I have always been dismissive of this voting method: if everyone gets along for a while and then chooses a class cadre to help the teacher manage the class, then democratic voting is generally reasonable and fair. All the similar voting occasions I met after I went to college were not like this. What I encountered was a contest of canvassing ability.

I remember when I was an undergraduate, some classmates came to pull my ticket. I was not interested in this kind of thing at that time, and all my thoughts were on the upcoming lecture. This is probably the first time I have encountered this kind of canvassing. That time I sent a message saying:

I haven't changed this idea until now. In fact, on the one hand, I don't participate because I think I didn't do well this year, on the other hand, I just don't like this selection method.

I've been thinking, do you think the people who arrange this kind of voting know that most of the votes are drawn? This kind of thing is essentially the same as taking bribes? My answer is yes. Then why did you do it? Just to increase participation.

For example, if the "three good" students are judged only by hard indicators, then I may not care at all. But if I want to choose my classmates, I have to think carefully. This invisibly increases participation. As for canvassing, since we can increase participation, we can only turn a blind eye. My roommate also told me that under normal circumstances, the weight of students' voting is not small.

However, in the face of such a system, I have no ability to change it except writing this article and complaining. At best, I just don't participate. But I really think this so-called "democracy" is better to be less.