i heard someone say vote to make your voice heard

 Let's look at the design of the system from an information theoretic perspective. Say there are N candidates. My vote will be to select one of them. How many bits of information are in that. log base-2 of N bits. So if there are 4 candidates, my vote would be 2 bits of information. That is the loudness of my voice when I vote. Two bits of information. If I were speaking English, I could not say a single word without exceeding two bits of information.