I don't think it is fair to reduce democracy into a single small pigeonhole of majority rule voting for all topics. The traditional definition of democracy is a government or rule of the people. Even many libertarians or anarchists consider their systems to be a system governance or rules of the people. There is a contingent of people who are trying to change the definition and frankly I don't get the point. Telling people you are against democracy isn't going to gain any support ,and I don't consider it helpful linguistics even if it did.

I advocate for a Caroasi Cooperative Republic, and I certainly consider it to be a democratic form of government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people much more so than a traditional Republic. I consider it to be the most democratic form of government as of yet fully detailed by anyone, and no voting is actually specifically required for the structure to work, it only helps to establish consensus, which could be done by other ways including opinion polling or even unanimous consent.