[EM] sortition/random legislature Was: Re: language/framing quibble

[Raph Frank]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> A random assembly also resists the attack where one corrupts candidates,
> simply because it's not clear who the candidates are going to be.

There is also the effect that a person who wants to be a candidate may
need support to have any chance at all.

> I don't
> know if randomness, or more generally, a weak voter-representative link is
> required for this resistance. It might be, for a single given
> representative, but a method where voters elect groups and some subset of
> each group is taken could also be resistant to this, if it's not obvious
> beforehand which subset is taken.

Interesting.

You could have a system with PR-STV where half of the elected
candidates are excluded from consideration and then the election is
held a second time.