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You can think of democracy in many ways. It is a word that stands in for a set of interconnected, abstract concepts—like freedom, equality, the right to vote in fair elections, government for the people, not the few. But boiled down, democracy, or a democracy, is a list. The list of electors comprises the full, legal names of people who have the right to vote in an election, their addresses, unique voter identification numbers, and the polling stations they can be expected to show up at in each riding on election day. The list of electors is sacrosanct because it constitutes the...