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Old 01-29-2018, 08:55 AM   #21
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems

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Originally Posted by ericthered View Post
20: Elections are lotteries, but instead of directly picking citizens, each citizen submits a proxy and one citizen's proxy is chosen at random.
Note that any scheme that involves voting can be converted into one or more random systems by replacing any or all of the votes with a random generator. Pick the king at random (from any of a variety of pools of candidates), pick legislators at random, elect legislators and let them compose and debate bills and then decide if they pass by flipping a coin....

OK some replacements seem less ridiculous than others, though I could see that last in a less degenerate case where you let the legislators votes count for something, but add some number of additional random votes to give the gods a voice in the outcome.
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