In my mind, voting is an implementation detail of democracy. The drafting process is much more important, as that is where all the different voices are supposed

In my mind, voting is an implementation detail of democracy. The drafting process is much more important, as that is where all the different voices are supposed to be heard. > This tends to be dominated by lobbyists and others backed to promote narrow, self-serving agendas In a real representative democracy, this shouldn't matter (yes, I know, this veers eerily close to a no-true-scotsman argument). If all the participants promote their own self-serving agendas, the end result will be a mix of those agendas, weighted by how widely particular viewpoints are represented. The problem of course is firstly that systems like winner-takes-all and first-past-the-post violate democracy by silencing other voices, and secondly that lobbying is done by interests who represent nobody but themselves yet it has a hugely outsized influence on the outcome.