…because very likely it has already been lost.

Either from ineptitude and ignorance,

No business in America would put someone with no computer expertise in charge of a multimillion dollar information technology (IT) purchase. However, this is precisely what we’ve done with our election officials. Good, well-meaning but technically naive bureaucrats all over the country have been sold huge, complex, untested computer systems that masquerade as simple “voting machines.” These officials have been put in charge of a massive IT procurement project, and they simply are not qualified.

Or plain old malfeasance,

I will be voting but with little faith that my vote cast will have any weight, meaning, or purpose. Rather, my vote will be like that futile attempt to change the traffic light cycle by franticly pressing the crosswalk button. It will amount to nothing.