Reflections on acceptance are part and parcel of democratic values and electoral processes. Tight majorities can suffer from insufficient acceptance if those loosing in a vote feel very strongly about the issue whereas the wining majority might only be moderately interested in the outcome. With repeated voting events despite a series of majority votes, a strongly opposed continuous minority might evolve. As a consequence the overall satisfaction with majority voting could decrease with the evolution of a more radical opinion against the apparently indifferent majority. Similar to a judgement in courtrooms, the pacifying role of elections has to be kept in mind for democracy to thrive. Even if voting is primarily designed as a binary yes versus no ballot, after the majority has been found the costs in form of acceptance to the minority is worth taking into consideration.
