It's kind of unpleasant how the only options for voting for the AKB48 election are to either vote online or to purchase their new single, Everyday Kachuusha, which contains a voting ticket as well as a limited handshake event form. This essentially means that if one does not have internet access and would rather not purchase their new single, they cannot vote even though they are AKB48 fans. True, that person could vote via phone but would have to be a member of the fan site. So only the true AKB48 fans were allowed to vote. Wouldn't these strict procedures spoil the voting results? Why can't people vote without having to be members and subscribers of their websites? Why can't people vote without having to purchase their single, Everyday Kachuusha that most seem to find rather annoying?
Sure, allowing everyone to vote without having these prerequisites can in fact lead to inaccurate results since people who are not AKB48 fans may just joke around and vote for random members, but let the truth be told. The media just wants to sell more copies of their new single, and the websites want to get more fans so that AKB48 would be the most dominant group in the nation. But what specific outcome will that lead to? Some people are forcing themselves to buy the single or becoming members of groups just so they could vote. If more and more people do that, the fan members wouldn't be true AKB48 fans anymore, am I wrong? So why can't they vote regularly without having to become members?
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