On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
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> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Sandy Harris wrote:
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>> > I suggest that all US senators and representatives should be
>> picked at > random among the adult population. Like jury
>> duty. ... ... PS: I don't > recommend this for the US presidency
>> because the variance is too high.
>>
>> What about for the Electoral College?
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> Indeed. One of the comments at the site suggested the solution would
> be to abolish the presidency and have the sortition-selected
> congress elect a prime minister from among their number.
There is a SF novel that I read decades ago that discuss such a system in the US. I don't remember the author though, besides that he was relatively well know (enough to be translated to French).
Jean-Christophe Helary