Lotteries of all sorts are very popular….many buy their chances at a big payday….and lotteries have been used for many things in the past….they were even used for the draft before it was eliminated.

Since they are so damn popular and since damn near half of American citizens do not vote at anytime….how about a election lottery?

America’s presidential election is just next year, but the competitive ugliness on display on social media leading up to it is already making any sane person want to dip their head into boiling acid.

Fortunately, according to a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, there could be a better way: eliminate elections altogether and pick our leaders by lottery. Say what?!

“In the United States, we already use a version of a lottery to select jurors,” Adam Grant wrote in The New York Times. “What if we did the same with mayors, governors, legislators, justices and even presidents?”

Grant makes a persuasive case for picking our leaders randomly from a pool of candidates by pointing to research by Alexander Haslam, another psychologist, who’s run experiments that show that better decisions are made when the group leader is chosen by lottery essentially versus if the group leader is chosen for their leadership skills or if elected by their peers

“‘Systematically selected leaders can undermine group goals,’ Dr. Haslam and his colleagues suggest, because they have a tendency to ‘assert their personal superiority.’ When you’re anointed by the group, it can quickly go to your head: I’m the chosen one,” writes Grant.

Electing leaders by lottery, he points out, does have some historical precedent.

“The ancient Greeks invented democracy, and in Athens many government officials were selected through sortition — a random lottery from a pool of candidates,” says Grant, who says he’s been suggesting the idea to US Congress members.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/professor-suggests-replacing-elections-lottery-system

I would have to do more research but on the surface this seems like a logical way to do the picking.

I know that someone on here has got to have an opinion on this….would this be using technology for our benefit?

Any amazing thoughts?

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