They are imposing on a country who didn't vote for it a leader who will rule them.

> "It was an open discord server that anyone sufficiently motivated with an internet connection could join."

Only one political viewpoint was represented on that server—the viewpoint of people who agreed with the overthrowing-the-government politics they were organizing on it.

"Motivated" is the wrong question: people with different or opposed viewpoints, would refuse to participate in that teenager internet poll, because they would not identify it as a legitimate election. (And they'd be 100% right).