Everyone is not allowed to know that their vote was actually counted accurately. End-to-end observation access is simply impossible to provide to the millions of people under a single County Registrar of Voters.
For the presidential election it makes no diffrence anyhow. The presidential election is just a waste of the citizens time seeing as how the
electoral college ultimately decides.
The government does allow citizens to make changes via democracy
Laws themselves rarely see popular vote. You can vote for your officials who decide your local laws.
Laws in their entirety are against the ideal of
freedom in which we established this country hoping for. The overwhelming majority of laws are unconstitutional in my opinion. An absence of all laws would be true freedom and anarchy at the same time. There really is no perfect balance in this world. A person could move to countries with fewer laws(more freedom) the tradeoff would be less safety and recourse against those who wrong you.