It is enough that the people know there was an election.
The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
A computer programmer testifies at senate hearing to election voting fraud in the u.s , this is not the only occasion where the machines were manipulated, amazing huh, they manipulate people through mass media to get an uninformed vote, then they still have to manipulate the machines to win the elections
"democracy" can be a useful tool when you have these tools at hand,
republic is the word used in the constitutions,
no wonder they try to convince people that America was always a democracy