Ancient Greek democracies used a lottery system to choose leaders instead of voting
Ancient Athenian democracy prioritized fairness by using sortition, a random lottery system, to select government officials and jurors, ensuring that power was distributed across the entire citizenry.
In 500 BCE, Athenian democracy relied on sortition to choose leaders and jurors, believing that random selection prevented political capture by wealthy elites. This system ensured that the governing body statistically mirrored the population's demographics, eliminating the influence of patronage networks and career-driven incentives. By removing the need for campaigning, sortition effectively neutralized the bias of self-selection and the pressure of political factions.
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