Click here to access article by Dave Lindorff from his blog This Can't Be Happening! (Three pages)
It seems that democracy = elections is preached by the Empire except when it doesn't serve their needs. They also preach that violent attacks against an elected government is forbidden except when it serves the interests of the Empire as we've seen in Ukraine. It is quite amazing for me to see the media of the One Percent grappling with all these inconsistencies in their reports to the American populace. So far, to my bafflement, they seem to be succeeding or at least Americans appear not to be very bothered by them. Lindorff is bothered, and lays out all these inconsistencies in stark detail.
However, he goes too far with the statement that "voting can never be illegal.” Certainly the results of voting are illegal when voting or the counting of ballots is in any way rigged--we've seen that plenty of times in the US.