Totally agree with this, however I do feel the current election methods are holding us back from better alternatives to Representative Democracy. This Stanford Social Innovation Review article has a nice discussion on the issues of "e-voting" and ways to tackle them.
[https://ssir.org/articles/entry/edemocracy_an_emerging_force_for_change](https://ssir.org/articles/entry/edemocracy_an_emerging_force_for_change)