Designing Legitimacy Beyond Simplified Voting Rituals Core Thesis:Majorities are not inherently legitimate. Consensus is not unanimity. Voting is necessary — but insufficient.Democracy has long equated legitimacy with counting. If more people support an option than oppose it, the decision stands. This procedural clarity is attractive. It is also dangerously reductive. Moral Consensus Recursive Democracy (MCRD) does not reject voting. It rejects the over-reliance on simplified voting rituals a...