A change to the Presidential Election system.

What value do we place on experience as a Nation? 

 When you board an airplane.. do you want a pilot who is just out of flight school or do you want someone who has logged some hours? 

 When you go to the doctor, do you want a doctor fresh out of med school or one which has had some experience? 

 When you seek an Attorney to represent you, do you look for one fresh out of law school or do you value one which has spent some time in the courtroom? 

 As parents, do we allow our children to make decisions about how the family household should be run? 

 No doubt if you are like most of us you probably have answered all these questions in a manner that gives priority and value to those who are older and more experienced. Yet, when it comes to electing our leader of our Country we employ the exact opposite thinking.. We give the youngest and least experienced among us the primary power to select who will fill the office of the most powerful position on earth. How is that possible?

 It's possible because of how our electoral system works.. Each citizen has a right to vote, and his or her vote counts as only a single vote. Fair and balanced you might say? But no, it is not balanced at all, for the simple reason people age and die, and there are far more young than there is of old.

 What this does then with our electoral system is give I higher degree of weight to the younger population versus those that are older.. Unfortunately, it's the older population who has experience and Wisdom. The young for no fault of their simply just haven't lived long enough to have the experience necessary to make wise choices. The following is a graph of the voting electorate of our country in the last census 2010.

So what if we weighted each persons vote by how old they are?  Starting with a vote of ONE when they become eligible to vote, and then increase that vote each year by .05.   This would in effect give a 18 year old the vote weight of 1,  a 38 year old the vote weight of 2,  a 58 year old the vote weight of 3, a 78 year old a vote weight of 4 and a 98 year old the vote weight of 5.

If we did such a weighting system, we see that the voting electorate forms a nice Bell curve, with the middle aged being the center of the bell.. It also put parity between the young and the old.

This in my opinion is a sensible system.. If give value to to experience and wisdom and balances out the votes of the elderly (most wise) and the young (least wise).  The middle aged group in the middle does represent the predominant producers in our society.  The young, generally haven't paid much in taxes are are for the most part just starting out and going to school.. The elderly on the other hand are usually retired and many no longer produce but are dependent on retirement and social security.

So doesn't it make sense to give those in society who are the ones putting into the system rather than taking out of the system more weight as to who should lead the system?