In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate only 11 senators were Black

Re:In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate only 11 s... by Swenrekcah on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:42AM (#36905984)

I've long suspected that the best election system would use randomness.

The thing is we need a whole bunch of great people for parlimentary work. But nobody can know all of them well enough to vote for them.

But if every voter was randomly assigned a limited collection of candidates some months ahead of the election, they could make a very well informed vote on those specific candidates.

If there are 100 million voters, 1000 parliament seats and 10,000 candidates then every voter could be assigned let's say 20 candidates and 4 votes to distribute among them.

With a 50% participation rate you'd get about 100,000 inspections of each candidate which should be more than enough.

The best part is that this system completely eliminates personality cults.

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Re:In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate only 11 s... by bombcar on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:47AM (#36906030)

The problem with any random system is that it exasperates the existing problem; the unelected assistants become the true power behind the throne.

For a random system to work it would have to randomly appoint people for life or at least long enough terms that they can actually learn how to implement what they want.

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Re:In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate only 11 s... by Swenrekcah on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:46PM (#36915926)

good point

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Re:In the nearly 232-year history of the US Senate only 11 s... by jacquesm on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:31AM (#36983874)

Unlimited terms have their own problems.

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