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by deckar01 53 days ago
I’m ready for a modern form of representation that isn’t constrained by how many people an old building can hold. I wish small groups could have a representative with a proportionally small fraction of voting power.
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Then, why have groups at all? Direct democracy!
Mainly participation. Voter participation is already very low. It would be interesting if voting was more like jury duty and a random sample of the population was selected to vote per issue. That way there are no termed representatives to corrupt and participation is always significant and uniform.
Representation by random selection instead of popular vote was already proposed as a fix for many of the democracy's disadvantages.
I don’t remember it being covered in any of my government classes, and I had not considered alternatives to electoral representation until it started being so openly corrupted. Sortition USA looks interesting.

https://sortitionusa.org/