Ranked choice won't solve our problems. Approval voting, single transferrable votes, or mixed member proportional elections won't solve our problems. Elections

Ranked choice won't solve our problems. Approval voting, single transferrable votes, or mixed member proportional elections won't solve our problems. Elections have intractable problems, they cannot be solved because they are inherent to the process. The ancient Athenians understood this. The way forward is sortition. Not randomly selecting people directly to office mind you, but convening deliberative citizens assemblies to directly weigh in on issues and even potentially to appoint officials to govern. There is a rising movement to implement such reforms that has started to gain a foothold in Ireland, France and Belgium. Those who want to know more should look into the Sortition Foundation and DemocracyNext.