I think what the GP was getting at was that having a sizable population of people living within the de-facto boundaries of a state who are unable to vote (in th

I think what the GP was getting at was that having a sizable population of people living within the de-facto boundaries of a state who are unable to vote (in this case, because they lack citizenship) makes it less democratic. That's a slightly different problem than the fact that democracies can be terrible if the voters choose terrible things.