When in the same sentence something is asserted to be a democracy and yes I am aware of the not a democracy statement which applies to a different aspect of Wikipedia yet denies the right to count each vote equally it only means there is something fundamentally wrong with voting as a method utilized to achieve consensus but not with the rights of individuals per se in a real world democracy everybody s vote is counted equally that of a Harvard graduate and of an elementary school dropout This is exactly why some wikipedians strongly discourage use of polls for problem resolution but since voting is employed here let s at least try treating it as democratic and not make up rules as we go along