What if your president was chosen via lottery?

Dig into sortition, a system where officials are selected via lottery, and how it could address the problems of modern democracies.

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Elections are tools that ensure a nation’s citizens all have an equal political voice. But these so-called “great equalizers” are often plagued by corruption, partisan divides, and uninformed voters. Which is why some of democracy’s first and most famous practitioners used a different approach: sortition. Michael Vazquez explores how this system could address m