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Which do you suppose, would be a better way of retaining the most qualified public officials. Standard partisan elections based upon campaign promises... Or just randomly pick names out of the phone book?
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July 30th, 2013
Imagine if all political elections ceased. And instead, every term, for every office, we allowed a random number generator to pick a social security number out of thin air.
Our new president is 487–40-2204.
Your new mayor is 498–93-3921
The pick would have option to accept or decline. The next number would then be picked.
Imagine that scenario instead of our current partisan election system with all the money wasted on campaigning.
Do you think there would be any more or less lunatics in office than we have right now?
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