Funny you should mention that – I haven’t forgotten sortition at all, I’m just saving it for a later post.

This post is specifically about selecting individual leaders, for which sortition isn’t really suitable. A lot rests on the shoulders of a president/governor/prime minister, and it probably wouldn’t go well to just hand that job to a random person. On the other hand, if you are talking about selecting multiple candidates to represent a population, this is somewhere sortition could be very useful indeed. You might have to wait a couple of weeks, but I will cover this!