Equality by lot

Following the call for proposals for changing the subtitle of this blog, we have the following proposals:

1. The blog of the Kleroterians (i.e., keep the subtitle as is.)
2. The political potential of sortition
3. Sortition as a democratic tool
4. No democracy without sortition
5. Because you can’t have democracy when you don’t have sortition
6. The democratic potential of sortition
7. Sorting out sortition
8. A blog to sort out sortition
9. Maximus in minimis
10. Put the man in the street in the catbird seat
11. Democratic lotteries and the potential of sortition
12. Selection by lot
13. Selecting political decision-makers the way we select jurors
14. More democracy by random selection of citizens
15. Better democracy through sortition
16. Renewing democracy through sortition
17. More democracy by haphazardly selected citizens
18. Sortition: next step for democracy
19. The political potential of democratic lotteries and sortition
20. More democracy via sortition
21. Democracy and the potential of sortition
22. Sortition is the future of democracy
23. Better politics through sortition
24. Sortition, impartiality, equality, People’s rule
25. Democracy through sortition
26. Sortition for democracy, fairness and good governance

(I tried to include no more than two proposals by each person. If you feel that there are fewer than 2 of your proposals on the list, or if you otherwise feel that your proposals were unfairly excluded, please let me know as soon as possible.)

Ideally, I would go with proportional representation, so that each subtitle would be used part of the time, where the part is determined by the proportion of the votes it got. However, I am afraid this is technically difficult. (Maybe we can consider changing the subtitle every year?)

As we all know, there are no good voting schemes, so we are left with using a bad one. I suggest then that we use ranked choice. Please respond in the comments below with exactly one ordered list of subtitles from the list above representing your order of preference. Voting closes in a week.

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