In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample.
Properly implemented, this could mitigate so many problems with contemporary democracy, especially lobbying and two-party systems.
Rigging a US Election would require having thousands if not millions of people in on it and all of which keeping a secret.
Rigging a lottery would require compromising one person.
Only if it were implemented in one place, as a centralised ballot. Why not have States individually run their own?
… in fact, I wonder if it’d be legal under US law (I’m not an American myself) for a State to unilaterally start using sortition to provide their representatives? 🤔
Pretty sure it would be legal. The number of representatives is defined, but each state is free to decide however they like who they’re sending. The only real sticking point would be the absolute hissy fit the two main political parties would throw. It would be somewhat hilarious though to see the kinds of knots the lobbyists would tie themselves into if they suddenly had to handle a mob of random citizens instead of the professional leaches they normally work with.
Or the certification of one now — which has been attempted.