Yeah, the heart of this issue is how effective a given voting system is. In a good democracy, ideally it would be the majority of the people within the country who decide who elected them, but the systems we use today don't accurately reflect that. As a Canadian example, we use the First Past the Post system, which is really just a fancy name for a plurality vote. Whoever gets the most votes wins. It sounds better than it plays out, especially when we look at the last Canadian election; Canada experienced an approximately 52% voter turnout, the lowest in this country's history. Of those, because there were 4 parties being voted for, the winners of the election (the Conservatives) ended up with another Minority Government based on winning the most votes out of everyone who participated, while still not having the majority of seats within Parliament.

It ends up with the votes of approximately 36%~ of Canadians who actually showed up to vote deciding who the governing party is going to be. One-third of half of Canadians effectively chose the government, with 30-40% being the approximate percentage to win in any given riding. The issue with this is that the true majority hasn't actually selected a candidate (much less the candidate they wanted). If 35% wins a riding, 65% of voters haven't voted for the winner. This is completely out of whack with the idea of a 'majority rules' democratic government.

There was a referendum in Ontario in the last provincial election calling for a change in the voting system; instead of using FPTP, we would use the Mixed Member Proportional system, which involved voting twice - once for the local candidate you wanted to elect, regardless of partisan affiliation and once for the party you wanted in government. As much as I liked the system (I see it as a step up in voting representation, although my understanding of it is extremely limited), it was defeated in a binding referendum in that election, the defeat coming mostly from media-related issues. The new system of voting wasn't explained properly, the government pretty much flat out refused to talk about it and there was a media storm of hatred towards it based more on a sense of traditionalism than actually comparing one system to the other, but that is a digression.