[kevinnk]

Lots of clubs/community orgs are like this. The community soccer org for the city I grew up in had lots of turnover in the management due to voting.

[PoachedSausage]

The best sports and social clubs I've been a member of generally try to avoid too many political games although they are nominally democratic.

Club politics is generally tiresome, few people join a tennis club or hackerspace to play politics, they want to play tennis or make things.

[Animats]

"The trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings." -Wilde

That's the problem with democracy. It's hard work.

[ams6110]

In my experience (have served in a few of these) it's hard enough to find one person willing serve in each organizational position. Contested elections are almost never seen.

[Spooky23]

It depends on the place.

Where I live the Little League is like the farm team for the local democratic machinery.