Driving into work this morning, it hit me: the whole election/voting process is broken.

Fortunately for mankind and the future of America, I have a solution.

First a little background. Hidden amongst all the pre-election stories proclaiming an Obama landslide were a few that indicated otherwise. The most telling one was produced by, of all people, Howard Stern. Stern sent out one of his folks to interview Obama supporters, but what he did was attribute McCain’s views to Obama. They still supported Obama.

Also, take a look at California’s Proposition 8 regarding gay “marriage.” All the exit polls show that the majority of blacks voted to disallow gay “marriage” while voting for Obama (who, I believe is ambivalent about the issue).

What that tells me is that our elections for President aren’t about the issues or who is most qualified, but which candidate is more popular.

Obviously, if we continue to elect presidents based on their outward appearances or popularity, our country is eventually going to be in a world of hurt (literally). So here’s the solution:

ePresident

Here’s how it would work. You’d still have primary and general “elections” and you’d still have candidates (those folks who’ve professed an interest in the job). On election day for the primary (and it’d have to be the same day for every state), you go to the polls if you don’t have a home computer with an internet connection, or from your home internet connection you go to the ePresident web site.

There you’re asked a series of questions about issues. Those who’ve professed an interest in the job would be asked the same questions. Then it’s a simple matter of matching the answers of the public to the answers of the candidates. In the primary, whoever gets more matches to their “profile” wins. Then in the general election, the same process would take place.

We could get rid of all those Diebold machines and just let eHarmony run the election. Simple.