Elections!!!

Yesterday was our school's election for student representative. Actually i never planned to go and vote since it is tedious work and plus i am lazy, as usual, haha! Anyway, what happened was, i had a change of mind, and together, with my friend, we trotted off towards the president hall where the voting was held.
When we got there, what happened was, we faced a big problem. When we were given the ballot to vote, we don't even know half of the names written there, imagine that! I whispered to my friend, "Hey, who are you voting for? I don't even recognise them, how am i even suppose to vote??" Then, we ended up ticking all the chinese names and familiar names that we saw on the paper. I guess we are being biased, but it is not like we have a choice, we don't even know who they are @.@
So, i was thinking...what happened to all those campaigning? Do they think that just by hanging silly banners around and having typical slogans like 'One person, one mission', or 'Let me be your voice!!' is going to help them gather votes? This is the worst campaigning and voting that i had ever seen. They need to convince us! To make us really believe that they are able to handle that responsibility! Not give us silly promises like faster internet, more provisions for the library to buy books, lowering of visa price, blah blah blah! To me, i will think that it is all nonsense unless i see some actions because every candidate seems to say the same thing. Boring!
So, today the results are out. And guess what? The people who are elected are those same faces again. Hmm, expected it, i guess. Due to the fact that nowadays most of the school elections are mostly based on popularity and not true skills and that. We, the sideliners are always afraid to enter this kind of things, so it always ended up being those people who are always seen and loud.
So, who is there to blame when this happens? Everyone has an equal chance to nominate themselves but is it true that everyone will also have an equal chance to win?