A community to discuss about sortition, a type of governance where officials are chosen by lottery.

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A community that talks about sortition/ lottocracy, a form of democracy where people are randomly chosen to lead the government. This community is for discussion, memes, screenshots, articles everything related to Sortition. It can be humourous, informative, or even critical, but for the latter two please provide sources. NOTE: all the rules are subject to change. I’ll lay down some ground rules for now, but when mods change, they may or may not change the rules. ____________________________________ # Rules ::: spoiler 1. Relevant discussions only Please keep discussion about sortition only. ::: 2. Respect everyone. ::: spoiler 3. Please back your arguments with proper citations. Be it for or against. Make sure you’re quoting credible resources while arguing or posting things. ::: 4. Self promotion must be relevant to Sortition, and must require moderator permission.

Hey, so I’ve created a community to discuss and talk about sortition, a type of governance where leaders and officials are chosen at random. This was practiced by ancient Athens, and is considered to be much better at representation than normal democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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At this point the method to find leaders could not get any worse.

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