i agree with you.  I, at times, don't really even think that votes are even counted.  I recall back in the Republican primaries in 2012 and my hometown had Ron Paul signs all over the place, very little other support was shown in the community.  On election day it was a party at the lines and the place was alive with Paul supporters.  

This is not a huge community.  No one I knew was vocally supporting anyone else and when the votes were tallied the following day, Paul had won 2% of the vote.  

but conspiracy theories aside, I truly believe that the electoral process is corrupt to the core and there is so much power at stake here that it is very unlikely that this is ever going to change.  Sure, they'll find a fall guy here and there and uncover some minuscule amount of votes that can be traced back, but the real corruption is likely too deep to dig up.   

It's a clown show that the Dems were already running for president **2 years** before the election.  We all know Biden is going to get the nod, these debates are a waste of time and money.