New information and communication technologies (ICT) have made the public sphere more diverse and fragmented, and consequently it demands a new kind of literacy to navigate. However, the inter-contextual understanding of democracy is still immature, making it sometimes difficult to have a more coherent view of the various concepts and ideas involved. Neither is the more limited concept of e-democracy uncomplicated and the design of tools and interfaces for e-democracy systems takes place in a highly multidisciplinary context, while there is still a need for some shared ideas of what democracy actually means, also in this new context. In this chapter, we suggest a general framework for evaluating tools for e-democracy and suggest some non-exhaustive criteria under which such tools can be evaluated. The framework is intended to enable users and developers to understand the varying degree of support a tool can provide for several aspects of democracy, and contains a ranking mechanism as well as a suggestion of a ranking-based index based on different criteria and the performance of a tool under these, while still being inclusive regarding different possible conceptions of the concept of e-democracy and its various forms.