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Comment by Der_Einzige

5 days ago

At least some greek states used to assign leadership in a lottery system designed in such a way partially to avoid the issues with this...

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

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

I think a reasonable compromise would be to elect a top 2-3 and then choose randomly between them.

  • The old election system for one of the Italian city-states was fascinating along these lines - multiple rounds (like, a dozen) alternating between sortition/lot and voting. The benefit, I guess, being that the lottery rounds make strategic voting unworkable, and the voting rounds allow better candidates to be preferred over worse ones.

Lol this is a terrible system because most people do not under any circumstance want to be bothered with wasting their time on this shit.