They definitely do not get their say. If groups of folks cannot vote in any election (in the US, this is the case: Immigrants here get to vote in local election

They definitely do not get their say. If groups of folks cannot vote in any election (in the US, this is the case: Immigrants here get to vote in local elections but no such rights generally exist in the US. Felons cannot vote. Children and teens cannot vote). Representatives in the US tend not to listen to those that cannot vote and generally dismiss a lot of folks that Do. Democracy is a name, sure, but flawed democracies are more common than unflawed ones. Those flaws generally mean that some folks' voice is supressed. The US was a "democracy" even while it enslaved millions of folks that it did not allow to vote. Once these folks became "free", many still could not vote. IT was a democracy then, too.