In licensed-speech systems you wait for a permit, a party newspaper, or a quiet room. In this one the default is that you may speak, print, assemble, and petition — including against the people counting the ballots.
The town hall is ordinary until you imagine it gone. A parent arguing a curriculum. A veteran arguing a war. A shopkeeper arguing a tax. The First Amendment is not a vibe. It is a working tool for people who will never have a title.
That is why the American system has outlasted so many elegant theories: it trusts the argument more than it trusts the official. When we forget that, we start to look like the systems we were built not to be.