#SortitionUS #Lottocracy

In Brussels the G1000 citizens' platform launched a petition to transform the soon-to-be-abolished Belgian Senate into a permanent Citizens’ Council advising parliament via the Ostbelgien model — needs 25,000 signatures for a hearing. #SortitionBE #Lottocracy www.belganewsagency.eu/citizens-pla...

Political reporter @wilmakieskamp.bsky.social of Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl calls for implementing the proposals of the Dutch Climate Assembly, and praises lottery-based citizens' assemblies in general. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy www.trouw.nl/columnisten/...

Sortition for drawing electoral districts in Michigan, for constitutional amendment vetoing in Mongolia, and this one is interesting as well: for staffing polling stations. | Onderzoek naar nut van loting van leden van stemlokalen: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"53% of French citizens support replacing the Senate with a randomly selected assembly. An absolute majority." Wow! #SortitionFR #Lottocracy

The free online version of Terry Bouricius's book, "Democracy Without Politicians," is now available! This book explains how electoral “democracy” is undemocratic, enshrining rule by elites rather than popular self-rule, and argues that sortition is a superior. Get it here shorturl.at/dQ1fJ

First Citizens' Assembly at the state level in the United States: "Jury duty for politics" on the property tax crisis. | Aankondiging van eerste gelote burgerberaad in een Amerikaanse staat: over OZB in Connecticut. @ctinsider.bsky.social #SortitionUS #Lottocracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz: "The democratic system no longer works. It's time for a different system: a lottery." #SortitionIL #Lottocracy | Israëlische kwaliteitskrant publiceert artikel over loting. @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social @haaretzcom.bsky.social www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/202...

Dutch House of Representatives supports €100,000 budget for research on how to meaningfully embed citizens' assemblies into the representative system. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy | Initiatief van Kröger en Dassen krijgt ruime Kamermeerderheid. www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/house-suppor...

Stemmen voor loting, kan dat? Jazeker! Breng zoals gewoonlijk je stem uit, maar schrijf ook stemvoorloting.nl op je stembiljet. Je stem blijft gewoon geldig, bevestigt de Kiesraad. Meer info op stemvoorloting.nl. #GR2026 #VoteForLottocracy #SortitionNL

Dutch member-based broadcaster MAX airs mini Citizens' Assembly series from the town of Woerden on public news station NPO Radio 1 in run-up to next week's municipal elections #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @omroepmax.bsky.social www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/omroep-max-k...

Historian and TV-personality Van Rossem publishes interview with leading Dutch sortition advocate Ms. Eva Rovers | In zijn tijdschrift spreekt Van Rossem met cultuurhistoricus en directeur van Bureau Burgerberaad Eva Rovers over het nut van burgerberaden voor de democratie. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy

Interview with author and leading Dutch sortition advocate Eva Rovers in today's financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad. Among the topics discussed: a Third Chamber in parliament, with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy @fd.nl fd.nl/samenleving/...

Het verbod op dobbelen in de islam betreft gokken om geld. Loting als eerlijk selectie-instrument is juist bekend in de traditie. Een theologisch bezwaar tegen gelote burgerberaden ligt daarom niet voor de hand; eventuele weerstand zal eerder politiek zijn.

Landemore: "Democracy in Classical Athens had no career politicians—and that wasn’t a bug. In this excerpt from my new book Politics Without Politicians, out now in TPM, I examine what their system can teach us about expertise, citizenship, and democracy today." talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/career-...

Landemore's Politics Without Politicians had just come out, as another book about sortition hits the shelves: Democracy's Second Act. #Sortition #Lottocracy tegenverkiezingen.nl/boeken

Dutch historian/TV-personality Maarten van Rossem, usually very negative about voters, is remarkably positive about citizens' assemblies | Van Rossem pessimistisch over verkiezingen, maar positief over burgerberaden #SortitionNL @maartenpodcast.bsky.social tegenverkiezingen.nl/maarten-van-...

Dutch translation will be out on February 23rd, Spanish translation in September. #Sortition #Lottocracy www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/boeken www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730879...

Dutch MP Suzanne Kröger (green/social-democrat) fears 'Biden scenario' and advocates for citizens' assemblies. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy

Het degenereren van burgerberaden: eerst zelfaanmelding en dan pas loten. Niet doen! | It's the completely wrong way of doing a citizens' assembly: apply first, lottery later. This time it's the Dutch province of Drenthe that doesn't get it. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy

Grok really seems to like sortition! Maybe Musk did not yet instruct Grok to ignore it. #SortitionAI

The upcoming worldwide citizens' assembly on food has an apply-first, lottery-later procedure. That certainly saves costs, but it's not a good way to do sortition. In the Dutch case: only twelve people applied, and one of those was drawn by lot. g1000.nu/blog/global-...

OK: I have a new favorite topic to teach in intro philosophy classes: lottocracy. Literally half my class followed me back to my office because they *couldn't stop talking about it.* Lottocracy is the argument that elections don't work, and that the best way democracy is through lottery.

Civic Assemblies coming up in L.A. (charter reform) and in Akron, Ohio (housing): both cases of apply-first-lottery-later. That's the wrong way around: not a good way to do sortition. #SortitionUS #Lottocracy. www.unifyakron.org laist.com/news/politic...

The Wikipedia-inspired podcast 'Never knew about this', made by Dutch software developer @teund.bsky.social, devoted an episode to Lottocracy. | Podcast 'Nooit Geweten' aflevering #120: over loting (16 minuten) #SortitionNL #GetLucky www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/nooit-gewete...

Activists target the King's throne in House of Lords, and demand Lords to be replaced with citizens drawn by lot. | Opnieuw protestactie voor burgerloting in VK. #SortitionUK #Lottocracy #GetLucky www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/house-of-lor...

Terry Bouricius writes in Jacobin | 14 December 2025 #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky jacobin.com/2025/12/sort...

Gruen heeft inmiddels zijn 10e korte video online gezet: waarin een voormalige rugbyspeler al na 30 seconden de stekker uit zijn politieke carrière trekt: hij kan de zinnetjes niet uit z'n mond krijgen. Video voor video sloopt Gruen verkiezingen. #Sortition www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHaW...

Former Philosopher Laureate of the Netherlands @daanroovers.bsky.social yesterday criticized elections, and advocated for sortition, in Huizinga Lecture at Leiden University. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #GetLucky x.com/ChrisIsErbij...

De stad Lexington, Kentucky gaat voor het eerst een burgerberaad houden: over het reglement inzake het stadsbestuur. #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky

Dutch Climate Assembly presents its 13 recommentations to the government and parliament. #SortitionNL #Lottocracy #Getlucky

Duitse Bondsdag heft commissie voor het organiseren van burgerberaden op | The German Bundestag —House of Representatives— disbands Citizens' Assembly task force #SortitionDE #Lottocracy themunicheye.com/bundestag-ci...

Permanente gelote burgerraad in Oost-België haalt de New York Times | Standing Citizens' Council in East-Belgium is in the New York Times. #SortitionBE #SortitionUS #Lottocracy #GetLucky @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...

As reported by Eric Bodenstab on X: Fort Collins Mayor reflects on Civic Assembly Success. #GetLucky #SortitionUS #LottocracyUS youtu.be/K2xjUXFFA1s

#SortitionEU #LottocracyEU #GetLucky

Political parties are transforming judicial appointments into partisan weapons, actively eroding long-standing democratic safeguards. With courts becoming ideologically predictable and systems easily manipulated, basic democratic norms are increasingly at risk.

Today in the left-of-center @volkskrant.nl — one of the leading Dutch newspapers — columnist @marcialuyten.bsky.social describes the fall of political parties, and calls for Citizens' Assemblies. #GetLucky #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL

Australian economist and CEO Nicholas Gruen recently launched the first of a twenty-episode series of short videos on sortition and citizens' assemblies. #GetLucky #Sortition #Lottocracy www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/gruen-komt-m...

"But what did strike me more this year in Brussels than last year in Vancouver (...) was that younger participants seemed keener to hone a more radical approach to rally round." #GetLucky #Sortition #Lottocracy

Two days before the general election, one of the leading Dutch newspapers NRC publishes interview with Hélène Landemore on democracy, sortition and citizens' assemblies. Landemore has started working at Leiden University. #SortitionNL @landemore.bsky.social @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

The global climate conference in November hosted in Belém, Brazil will make use of a global Citizens' Assembly. #COP30 #SortitionWorld #LottocracyWorld www.tegenverkiezingen.nl/mondiaal-bur...

Just heard a commercial for Eva Rovers' new book being broadcast on Dutch public news station NPO Radio 1; in the commercial she voices support for a Third Chamber with citizens *drafted by lot*. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL #TK2025 libris.nl/a/eva-rovers...

#SortitionCN #LottocracyCN

Two calls for an additional, lottery-based house of parliament in leading Dutch newspapers NRC and Volkskrant, as the new book by Eva Rovers advocating such a Third Chamber hits the shelves. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL libris.nl/a/eva-rovers...

#SortitionUS #LottocracyUS

Hoogleraar staats- en bestuursrecht Wim Voermans zal op do.-avond 18 sep in Tilburg een pleidooi houden voor het permanente burgerberaad. Gratis toegangstickets | Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Voermans will advocate permanent Citizens Assembly in city of Tilburg. #SortitionNL

Leading Dutch advocate for Citizens' Assemblies Eva Rovers publishes article in online Dutch newspaper De Correspondent. Included: a map showing all permanent local and regional councils in Europe with citizens drawn by lot. #SortitionNL #LottocracyNL

More on Edmund Griffiths' proposal for sortition in a yet to be founded new left party in the United Kingdom. #SortitionUK @edmundgriffiths.bsky.social @lijphart.bsky.social @nuttlos.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy www.edmundgriffiths.com/newpargetsor...