The Case for not counting every vote

In spite of free public libraries, the proliferation of national book store chains, mandatory public education etc., etc. American voters may be the most unsophisticated and misinformed voters to cast ballots in the industrialized world.
My proof of this basic assertion is the fact that there were enough uninformed American voters in 2000 and again in 2004 to give George W. Bush the presidency. Which serves as authentication that Americans
are capable of voting en masse against there own self-interest. All because many of them felt that George W. was the kind of guy that they would'nt mind sharing a beer. This regardless of the fact that George W. could not name the leaders of most of the countries in which he would have to negotiate and deal. Or his abysmal performances during the debates. In spite of the idea that he had no foreign policy experience and that there was some question of his whereabouts during his term in the Air National Guard. George Bush was a man who as an investor (someone else's money) was not allowed to even manage a baseball team. And if none of the above does'nt clinch it for you, here's what did it for me. American corporations raised and held in escrow $100 million dollars for the Bush campaign even before he announced that he was running. Call me a pessimist if you will, but as an American consumer I know as fact that my interest and American corporate interest rarely intersect, period!
But Given the American twin traits of arrogance and ignorance, never a more dangerous couple to meet in a polling booth we find ourselves at this dark place. The Democratic party has made one right move and that is to depend on a delegate count, because the vote for leadership is far too important to leave to the average American voter. Perhaps we could go further and implement a civics test that if a voter exhibited less than a perfunctory grasp of the issues, they would be relegated to handing out pamphlets. This way we could all rest assured that they'd be kept at least 100 feet from the polling station.
And maybe the American assumption that "My ignorance is just as good as your intelligence," will no longer apply.