Nat - the only ones that come close to be democracies are S-Corps, which are corporations that have stockholders/shareholders. Even there, they're obviously not true democracies, but stockholders do get to vote on certain things, and that vote is binding.
That's why we have a conflict of interest policy in place. In general, any Board member who would be directly affected by a vote of the Board in their capacity as an Officer would recuse themselves from that vote. So if the Board wanted to vote me out, for instance, I would be unable to...
Hey everyone! Something we decided at this year's admin meeting was to utilize our global announcement feature to put up posts about different topics. This is the first post in that new series of history lessons about the Tower. The purpose behind these is to give insight into the background...