Egalitarianism and Humanism

The fundamental Egalitarianism of Democracy is that one vote has the same value as every other vote.  Now, since the ground of this equivalence is the common Humanity of voters, Democracy is an essentially and uniquely Humanist system.  Thus, to rectify some recognized flaws in such Egalitarianism--that it cultivates de-vitalizing averageness, that it is incommensurate with unequal comprehensions of the Good of Society, etc., without sacrificing that fundamental Humanism, at least one of two courses seems required: first, as Dewey, notably, proposes, a system of Education that is appropriate to a Democracy must be instituted; second, absent the premise of an essential Egalitarianism of Intellectual capacity entailed in that approach, the development of a system that both retains universal suffrage, and allows for gradation in the value of a vote.  To date, the former seems to be the less daunting of the two, though it may be futile if Humanism is essentially Inegalitarian.