No you don't. You may THINK you get to choose your "elected officials" but the system places it's thumb on the scales. Just consider how Hillary Clinton's campaign contrived to push Bernie Sanders off the party ticket. She used the DNC "Super Delegates" (amongst other things) which skewed the DEMOCRACY which you thought you were using. And look how the Fake News media puffed up Trump, who they thought was a Light Weight, until he became the RNC candidate, -- and then turned against him when he was running against THEIR CANDIDATE -- Hillary.
You get the person THEY select, and then vote for the person they TELL you to vote for. (And yeah, Hillary was projected to win by some 80%, but GOD thought otherwise.)
In the near future, your "elected government" will end up under a completely unelected "government", -- the United Nations --, in what Scripture says is the "eighth which was and is not", because it has NO Geography, NO Populous, NO Army, etc. And of course this One-World-Government will incorporate the mark of the beast and bring about global thermonuclear war -- in the next few years as best I understand Bible Prophecy. P.S. I preferred Hilary Clinton to Trump even though I didn't agree with everything she said. They were both probably the two worst people their respective parties could have ended up with.
But first we have to have a war in the middle east (Ref. Daniel 11:40-44, and Ezekiel 38 & 39), which I expect to start this summer -- as best I understand Bible Prophecy.
Bobby Jo