[jimmydoreornot]

I've always felt voting was a bad idea. It drives candidates to waste inordinate amounts of time and money on campaigning. For many posts, the ancient Athenians selected people at random (sortition) usually from a pool of willing candidates. A large enough random selection would be represenative. This would work well for the US House of Representatives.

Your comment implies that you don't want representatives, you want other people to vote for whatever it is you want. All I can say to that is: ask God for the serenity to accept those things you cannot change.

[Graffur]

That is really interesting. Do you know if it's been used anywhere else? Even non-governmental type votes?

[Sparkle-san]

It's been used in student government and there's been some research behind it. I originally heard about it on an episode of Malcolm Gladwell's podcast.

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-powerball-revolution/

https://democracyinpractice.org/

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00422-16

[I-M-S]

Sortition was part of election process for Venetian doges - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_of_Venice

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Jury duty.