I disagree with the sibling, it's not technically democracy to coerce a vote through fraud. If you tell people R will give them S, and they vote to get S, but

I disagree with the sibling, it's not technically democracy to coerce a vote through fraud. If you tell people R will give them S, and they vote to get S, but it turns out R doesn't give S at all and you knew it all along; that doesn't mean people voted to get R. They voted to get S, giving them R is not therefore "technically" democracy (or any other weasel way of saying it).