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If voting didn't work, you will blame it on corruption or unprecedented times like war or natural disaster.
Its either democracy or some external thing happened, never that voting didn't bring democracy.
And we haven't even touched the subject of legally making it difficult for minority and "unwanted" groups to vote. We also didn't talk about immigrants who live work and pay taxes but are not represented by voting
My criticism is that the average person thinks that democracy and politics are just about voting. Voting is the bare minimum to engage in a democracy, only voting every 2-4 years achieves nothing.