Elections don't always lead to democracy:
US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke passionately 26/2/14
"A democracy is not defined solely by an election,"
"You can have a democratically elected government, but you don't have democratically-instituted reforms that actually give you a democracy, a full, practicing, functioning democracy"
"And what you have in many places is a general election, a popular election, absent reform, present with great corruption, great cronyism and a huge distortion of democratic process."