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