[EM] language/framing quibble

[Kristofer Munsterhjelm]

Terry Bouricius wrote:
> Although it may be off-topic for a VOTING method list, I have long 
> advocated a greater use of sortition (the selection by lot) to select 
> legislators (perhaps one chamber of a bicameral legislature?) Having 
> served ten years as a state legislator in Vermont, USA, I can assure you 
> all that legislators are not more qualified, nor wiser, as Burke hoped, 
> but rather simply less-representative and more egotistical, than average 
> people. The experience and excellent work of the Citizen Assembly 
> established by the provincial parliament in British Columbia a few years 
> ago is compelling evidence that elections may not be the key to genuinely 
> representative democracy.

While it is useful to discuss voting methods, better yet would be make 
the question of the best voting method irrelevant. If that's a 
possibility, then discussing voter-free methods would still be on topic.

The central question at that level is whether random selection (or a 
voter-free method) would be better than even the best voting method. 
There may be differing opinions - the Greeks thought that elections were 
inherently aristocratic - and I think the answer depends on the situation.