The key question is how is democracy maximized. Choices are made during the interelection stage - but by mechanisms other than voting. The following eight conditions form the limiting conditions for maximizing democracy. That is, if all eight conditions are fully met, democracy is maximized. The alternative with the greatest number of votes is declared the winning choice.
All individuals possess identical information about the alternatives.
The orders of elected officials are executed. Or, that new decisions during the interelection period are governed by the preceding seven conditions, operating, however, under rather different institutional circumstances. If elections, like the market, were continuous, then we should have no need of the eighth condition. But elections are only periodic. Because human organizations rarely and perhaps never reach the limit set by these conditions.