Now, given all of this above, where exactly is the democratic process?
It is clear that when the will of the majority is overturned with bureaucracy and scam (legal or not, remember slavery and Jim Crow were once legal too), there is a systemic problem that allows a tyranny to be installed under the guise of democracy.
As I have said many times and will repeat ad nauseam, systems are the problem, not people.

"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce

"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky