“…Elections are not a method for discovering truth. Rather, they are a method for maintaining order by adjudicating between people’s conflicting desires. Elections establish what the majority of people desire, rather than what the truth is. And people often desire the truth to be other than what it is. Democratic networks therefore [must] maintain some self-correcting mechanisms to protect the truth even from the will of the majority…” [i]
[i] Yuval Noahharari, Nexus (Random House, New York 2024) Page 126.