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I’m curious if a sortition would work for passing legislation. Instead of wrangling legislators and trading favors to get exactly 50%+1 votes, have the pass/fa
by parpfish 1y ago
I’m curious if a sortition would work for passing legislation.
Instead of wrangling legislators and trading favors to get exactly 50%+1 votes, have the pass/fail determined by a single randomly selected voter. It would encourage much more cooperation and broad consensus building because a bill that gets 50%+1 votes isn’t 50/50 pass fail.
(Of course you’d need some sort of rate limiting so you couldn’t just keep spamming votes until it passes)
- dataflow 1y ago> It would encourage much more cooperation and broad consensus And what would you do when someone who wasn't part of that consensus passes crazy legislation?
- FredPret 1y agoOr, randomly select the senate members and keep the 50% + 1 rule
- sandworm101 1y agoBecause about 10% of voters are total crazy people. Let them make the occasional random decision and we will be at war with the moon people within a month.
- fakedang 1y agoExactly. Venice's govt was not a democracy - the Serene Republic was designed to basically filter in only the most influential, yet had a system of checks and balances so that power wouldn't devolve to just one family (like what happened in Florence and Milan). Sortition was part of that system.
- Ekaros 1y agoImmediate problem with that sort of system is that you could attempt something time after time after time. And eventually hit the decision...