Election

Do you remember May 1997? In that time 2 men were working for the 7th presidential election in Iran. All the governmental resources were with one of them and most of people liked the other one. After counting the votes the difference was so noticeable so dispersed cheatings never became remarkable.
As it's said, after that election our people started practicing democracy in their society. For them who always have been laid on the oil benefits and interference of religion and politics are inevitable it was a big experience. I'm not writing about that time and its own problems because it's 8 years in our history.
After the time of Mr. Khatami, again people went to vote for their most powerful man in the governmental hierarchy. But something strange happened. Our intellectuals who are most living abroad and even lots of local ones banned participation in the election. They said we don't trust to the system and never think that our votes are choosing the president. I think they forget that each person has 1 vote, no matter if he is illiterate or educated.
We saw the result. Our current president has only 3 million votes behind, but he is here now. He started learning ruling the country and up to the time that he becomes educated all the people are paying its cost.
Now, next week we have another election. I know most of people haven't found that enthusiasm to participate and its priority is less than the other ones. But I have my own theory , accept it or deny; while we are living in Iran so we should vote ,when the amount of the votes increase then they can't ignore them and now it's better to participate in the election to EXERSISE for choosing another president in 3 years.