Even then, it’s still not a particularly democratic democracy, e.g. disallowing felons from voting means people experiencing problems with the current law have no power to change it. When a citizen’s right to vote is conditional, suffrage is not universal.
Disallowing voting on any reason just allows the govt to use it to disenfranchise voters. Systemic biases have ensured that majority of original classes of people ineligible to vote have the largest proportion of disenfranchised voters even today in USA after 60 or 250 years, however you want to count
Even then, it’s still not a particularly democratic democracy, e.g. disallowing felons from voting means people experiencing problems with the current law have no power to change it. When a citizen’s right to vote is conditional, suffrage is not universal.
Disallowing voting on any reason just allows the govt to use it to disenfranchise voters. Systemic biases have ensured that majority of original classes of people ineligible to vote have the largest proportion of disenfranchised voters even today in USA after 60 or 250 years, however you want to count