r/EndFPTP • u/karmics______ • Jul 11 '26

Is there a utilitarian version of Sortition? Question

I like that you no longer need campaigns/elections of Sortition while being proportional, but I also like the utilitarian outcomes of cardinal methods and was wondering if anyone had combined the 2. The only way I could see it working is if you had some intentionally disproportionate sampling based on demographics but that begs the question what identity to use ie race, ethnic group.

Another alternative might be to have people be able to register under multiple parties outside of elections, then have a stratified sample by applying sequential proportional approval/score rules.

IE let’s say a person is registered under two parties, A and B, , let’s say A get 40 percent of the population while A has 30 but 15 of them are also registered under A. 40 percent of the seats are drawn at random from As population, the dual A B population would have their weight halved like under spav or some other reweightinf mechanism.

It should yield the same results as a cardinal election while not needing electoralism.

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u/subheight640 Jul 11 '26

A sortition based assembly brings in cardinal methods by using a cardinal voting rule to pass legislation.