But there is not "one true way" to coordinate a democratic election. Especially when considering the differences between presidential republics and parliamentar

But there is not "one true way" to coordinate a democratic election. Especially when considering the differences between presidential republics and parliamentary republics. Or even concepts like "one person one vote" force systems to converge towards a few stable establishment parties. It would still be democratic if voter could grade candidates and the winners were chosen by some appropriate statistical measure, or if voters could select arbitrary subsets of okeyish candidates and the winners were those with most votes, or any combination of many other systems. The real objective of most democratic electoral systems is governability and meaningful representation. Pretending that popular vote is the only meaningful way to elect representatives is naive.