Voters DO make their votes count, each and every election.  That's precisely why we have so many Democratic politicians -- we ELECT them.  

If you want to change that, try telling the local GOP to put up some viable candidates -- no teahadists, no kook-Christians (real ones would be OK), no 1%-ers.  If they can field a few decent candidates who actually care about most of us, they might actually win some elections.