I am not confused, nor trying to be. It is a factual statement.

Quite, although even “every human on earth votes” isn’t the most literal interpretation: the planet becoming sentient and itself voting would be.

Of course, that’s an absurd interpretation.

It is "a valid synecdoche" only as long as we accept that doublethink and newspeak are desirable. Sure, calling black — "white", dictatorship — "worldwide democracy" and so on… everyone will adjust. And by "will" I mean "already do and always did" — there's nothing new about this, it's just the "truths" we are supposed to believe in are what changes over the centuries, not the way societies work. Perhaps it's even true that there is no other way (which doesn't make me like it any more).

So it's totally true that no one is actually mislead by this, but I absolutely understand those who try to pretend they are, and have a slight disdain for those who try to defend this bullshit.