I think an advanced objective-thinking algorithm like watson advanced another 15 years would provide night-vs-day superior choices than your average self serving voter who has the objective thinking capability of a random number generator.
Voting is basically a popularity contest anyway. An objective thinking machine would have to be fed an objective question, like: "Which candidate has appealed to the politically active youth community with a tech-savvy hip message of 'change' "?
I agree with you that a machine may someday make a more "rational" vote than the average voter. We had quite an experience in Quebec recently...
That being said, your solution does not improve humanity. It does not make the voters (or the students) better understand their world. It's just a bandaid to hide their ignorance.
Voting is basically a popularity contest anyway. An objective thinking machine would have to be fed an objective question, like: "Which candidate has appealed to the politically active youth community with a tech-savvy hip message of 'change' "?