If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, our system was designed to minimize corruption, by diluting it in many ways, the most important of which, arguably, was by offering it in time delimited and renewable ways.
It was offered as a contract, to be renewed at the will of those offering the contract.
But when fraud is present, this part of the system is rendered inoperative. There is no check. There is no balance. As tedious as a politician who needs your vote may be, the one who does NOT need your vote is vastly worse. This is power without consequence. This is a return of Aristocracy.
And the First Amendment was intended in large measure to create an informed electorate, or at least create favorable conditions for it. . It, too, is intended to dilute power, since power unquestioned and unquestionable is well on its way to being absolute.
The practice of a power elite choosing for the people who would rule them is ancient. Even in the early days of our Republic this was the system. Most men and all women had no say at all.
These are the bad old days voter fraud necessarily returns us to. Sooner or later every evil practice the Left rightly condemns they return to and call Good.