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On Thursday the NBA will announce the starters for this year's All-Star game, as voted on by the fans. People often ridicule the voting process, but they do so for the wrong reasons.
In the end it doesn't really matter if 62,000 people thought Jeff Green should make the All-Star team or that Andrew Bynum got more votes than Brook Lopez. It's hilarious and wrong, but it's not the end of the world either. People vote for all kinds of stupid things and if that's the price of living in a democracy, then so be it, dammit!
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