Did you know not performing as you think another player should in a group

[HyoMinPark]

Your voice is just an automatic "no". Like the one initiating the kick is an automatic "yes". You can't call it democratic is you prevent one person from "voicing" his/her opinion.

Considering parties are either 4 people or 8 people, if you were to be given an option regarding your own dismissal, most people are going to, of course, vote "No! I don't want to be dismissed!" Considering this, your "automatic no" rather than be given an option/"counting vote" is to prevent stalemates--which would ultimately render the vote dismiss feature worthless in a lot of 4-man settings if one other person (aside from yourself) voted no. The person who initiates the kick is going to be voted as a "yes" by any and all logical stand points: they want you dismissed, so it makes sense that their vote is a yes, and it makes sense that it is considered. Thus, the 2/3 and 4/7 votes primarily considered is still "majority rules."

If the devs were to do as you suggest by not counting the vote of the kick initiator and the chosen to be dismissed (going off of your plaintiff/defendant example above), parties would have to consist of an odd number of participants in order to prevent stalemates and ties when doing vote dismisses. And since that seems unlikely, the current system is, more or less, working as intended.