Admittedly, although voter apathy is a familiar phenomenon, the thought experiment posits an extreme hypothesis. However, the point is that if the election is organised in a ‘fair’ way then the resulting absolute majority is legitimate from the democratic point of view. Its legitimacy, in the strict legal- constitutional sense, is not diminished by the fact that only one voter turned up. The majority of the actual voters not necessarily is a majority of the citizens or subjects with voting rights. Here is another proof of the Hobbesian character of modern democracy. In a ‘classic’ Hobbesian absolutist regime, in choosing his government, the vote of the Sovereign decides for 100% of his subjects; every other expression of preference on the matter counts for nothing. The Hobbesian Sovereign ‘represents’, and makes the laws that are ‘authorised’ by, all the citizens. In a simple democratic regime with only two parties, up to 50% of the votes count for nothing but 50%+n (1=