You're assuming that once we get to full-blown socialism, that the vote will have any meaning; I'm not too sure what meaning it has today. Certainly, we voted out Davis in the Cal recall, but who's to say what form US Socialism will take? Maybe the former Soviet Union would be a good historical marker, or maybe Zimbabwe - socialism is a disease and it does not lend itself to easy removal once installed. "No tyrant has ever given up power voluntarily." That goes for singular dictators and dictatorial oligarchs.
I wonder if it would take the following form: a govt school system that seeks to indoctrinate children into socialism; it provides a govt retirement plan "social security"; it provides for the disabled (social security disability), the unemployed (unemployment insurance that keeps getting extended), the single-mothers with children (welfare); it redistributes income (progressive tax system); it provides for a nationalized health insurance system (medicare -now with prescription coverage); it takes away property rights (environmental laws and eminent domaine); it takes away our constitutional rights (campaign finance reform; hate speech codes; religious freedom in our schools; gun control laws); it destroys our families to further promote the dependence on govt (gay marriages, gay adoptions).