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by deckar01 44 days ago
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.
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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/