Is America really a great democracy?

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I find it hard to call it a democracy at all when almost ten million of its adult citizens are denied the right to vote either for the United States' chief executive or for their own effective legislative representation in Congress by virtue of where they live, whether it be in one of the United States' outlying colonial territories, in its own federal capital territory or in its vast carceral archipelago. Any nation that permits its states to revoke the right to vote from its citizens on the basis of a past felony conviction does not deserve to be referred to as a democracy anyway.