Maybe, just maybe, it is who, or what, that is counting the votes that is selecting the ones in power everywhere.
It is really interesting how many keep getting in power that work against their own citizens.
There is certainly a good chance that elections are corrupt most places.
If they have mail-in balloting it almost a given that the elections are rigged. Ballot harvesting is also a big give-away that the election is rigged (California has both)
Digital voting machines are easily rigged.
Paper ballots with voter ID required is your best bet at an honest election.
In Bush vs. Gore the Democrats had to invent Hanging Chads to try and steal Florida to take the election from Bush because Florida had paper ballots.
They actually found a ballot punch machine with boxes of ballots in the trunk of an election official’s car, but there was never any indictment or prosecution.