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Re:The irrational hungry judge effect revisited by another-dave on Sunday July 28, 2024 @07:45AM (#41092600)
Or you could do like a ancient Greece where serving in the Senate was more like jury duty & people are appointed by random ballot.

I think representative democracy is fine, it's career politicians I'd do away with.

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Re:The irrational hungry judge effect revisited by kwhitefoot on Sunday July 28, 2024 @08:23AM (#41092758)
> appointed by random ballot.

The term for this kind of election is sortition.

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

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Re:The irrational hungry judge effect revisited by graemep on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:28AM (#41107159)
I would favour just appointing people by random ballot (not from a particular group). That would be far more representative of the population. It would solve issues like having fair representation for women of ethnic minorities etc.
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