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One great way around this is to alternate rounds of sortition with rounds of election: - You pick 1000 random people to serve as the House of Representatives.
by jplewicke 13y ago
One great way around this is to alternate rounds of sortition with rounds of election:
- You pick 1000 random people to serve as the House of Representatives.
- They elect 100 people from among themselves to serve as the Senate.
- You randomly divide them into 10 person committees.
If you have enough rounds, there are some great effects:
- The election means that only competent or representative people make it through to the next round.
- The sortition makes it so that no one individual or small group is likely to make it all the way to the top.