For US democracy replace "voters" with "lobbyists"
The only reason we imagine that there is a distinction is because most voters are too lazy to talk to the person they hired, so those who do stand out.
one is a large corporation with money paying for access and favors, the other is a regular person who votes. Absolutely absurd.
It remains that the system of government in the US expects regular lobbying from all voters. Without other qualifiers, lobbyists and voters are the same thing.