That this is a thing makes me feel like way less of a crank. I've been telling anyone who will listen that we need randomness in our politics for like 7 years now. People often do not respond well.
Yeah afaik it was a thing during ancient Greek democracy, also the Viennese used a version of it....
But to add to these thoughts, coming from a society that people often consider as one of the better democracies (Switzerland) I find it very annoying the system of a majority winning... I mean in this day an age of potential cyber voting, if a suggestion was to get 50% or less of positive votes (such a a vote for free public transport in Geneva which got 27%) it should at least be tried out....
Also the inflation of bureaucracy needs to be addressed.. my suggestion would be that those voting get to share part time (if they want to) in the physical running of government as part of it's bureaucracy and receive payment ( it's often a sinecure... especially in these insecure times....