To win 50%+ of the vote, all you need to do is artificially select and promote a dividing issue that gives you a 51% or more advantage among the electorate. And even then, you can import illegal aliens or manipulate immigration to socially engineer the electorate you can win with.
It is not advantageous to select an issue upon which 90% or more people agree. This is because it is not a dividing issue and doesn't give you an advantage over your political opponents.
By design, a good campaign team pushes issues that give them slight advantages over a divided people.
Politics revolves around these "wedge" issues. Insert billions of dollars of fiat currency and marketing and propaganda and you can steer the entire conversation, choose what the wedge issues are, and divide an entire populace to your will and command. Divide into republican and demoKKKrat and conquer both with propaganda designed to appeal to each group in different, but effective means. Divide the logical from the emotional, and design your propaganda to appeal to both.
Are you not convinced by now that the concept of "democracy" is mostly a lie? Which democratic vote and election system hasn't been compromised and cheated? Which nation has safely guarded a true democratic vote? None that I know of.
The idea of proprietary software counting your votes, especially one that uses decimal systems, is laughable. Scenarios such as those that Dr. Shiva explains allow for a proportional redistribution of votes in a cheated system.
Dictators over one hundred years ago were quoted for mocking and saying all that matters is who COUNTS the votes. Even Joe Biden had a Freudian slip and said the same.
President Biden: This Fight Is Not About Who Gets To Vote, It's About "Who Counts The Vote" https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/13/president_biden_on_voting_rights_push_i_hope_we_can_get_this_done_but_im_not_sure.html
He told you in plain English. Wake up, people.
It is a republic, that over the couple centuries or so, has too many elements of a direct democracy via changes in practice and the constitution. Now we have the worst of both systems.