I don't think letting the people vote is a good idea at all. Of the people that watch soccer, how many actually follow the politics? And how many people actually know what they're talking about? I for one don't know anything about the process aside from what I've seen on reddit, and even there I haven't seen any concrete arguments; lots of "anyone but Blatter" and "Blatter is so corrupt" - what does that mean? Will Prince Ali not be corrupt? How do we know? What does the corruption even entail? Bribes? OK, why would anything change with a different president? Maybe he doesn't accept bribes, but what's to say the other executives won't? Who even are the other executives? I don't think the average football fan will know the answers to these questions.