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I kindof feel like sortition is throwing the baby out with the bath water. I mean, yes it would solve many problems with corruption and bribery but it would also cause many more problems.You could do so, and I think I would support such measures, but that doesn't solve the whole problem, though. To give one concrete example, defence contractors have strategically placed their plants all over the United States for one purpose: they can not only buy votes for whichever candidate they like, but they can hold politicians at ransom for their votes in congress once they're in. ''Do as we say or we'll close down this enormous plant in your district and open it up somewhere else.'' If you're not up for re-election, this threat is a lot more empty.
Imagine a political election with 5 complete idiots and one highly qualified individual. With todays rules if the highly qualified individual can make it through the campaign cycle he/she would most likely win. If we used sortition, statistics tells us he/she would most likely lose.
Seems shortsighted. Either we would have to get a whole lot stricter on who was allowed to run or we would end up in very bad positions. Have you noticed some of the "politicians" running lately?