Re:A “perfect” voting system
by aranazo on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @10:42AM
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Using random factors in election is a really old practice going back to Athenian Democracy at least.. It's known as Sortition.
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Both of which terms are explicitly used in the article. :)
However this is not a sortition. It's an application of random-dictator to the problem of electing a per-constituency representative. This turns into a sortition only in the degenerate case where everyone runs and votes for themself.