Does democracy end with elections?

In India if you see newspapers showing pictures of 3 or 4 pretty girls cheerfully giving the finger it means they have just voted in some elections. They are showing the indelible ink mark on their left index fingers which is applied to prevent bogus voting. Today is Delhi's turn to elect a new state government and voter turnout seems to be higher than in other years. Educated people are usually reluctant to vote because they see it as a waste of time. Political parties are legalised gangs, full of criminals guilty of the most heinous crimes, usually controlled by families and buying votes from legions of poor people with promises of free handouts at taxpayers' expense, never mind the cost to the economy. All these freebies have to be paid for so taxes are among the highest in the world making everything so expensive that the vast majority of people cannot afford them. Thus poverty is the excuse for keeping people poor so that they will be so grateful for the few cheap rubbish thrown at them that they will vote for whoever promises the most. So the election commission has incorporated a NOTA or " None Of The Above " button on the voting machines which is meaningless because even if a majority of people reject all candidates they will not be disqualified but the person with just one vote will win if the others get no votes. The gang which wins forms the government which means they can do whatever they like without having to account for their actions. They can order 12 luxury helicopters from Augusta-Westland at a cost of Rs 30 billion for their comfort, travel abroad with families and friends at will, make vast amounts of black money from dishing out coal mines, sign away our security at Sharm-al-Sheikh and destroy the economy with useless social schemes to keep a foreign woman in power. And then tell fancy stories to lull us into stupor. Our most revered Finance Minister writes how he is fighting to save the economy from collapsing since he returned to the ministry, completely forgetting to mention that he is the man responsible for all the social schemes responsible for the uncontrolled inflation and fiscal deficit. He talks about how glorious everything was in 2007 without talking about how he has destroyed the economy and how India is still 94th on the Corruption Perception Index with a score of 36 out of 100. Democracy has become the last refuge for the villains.