@dredmorbius To summarize: the red/blue winner-take-all dichotomy is equivalent to taking a grayscale image and converting it to only black and white. Some level of error is inevitable, but by injecting randomness that error can be made less impactful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither

This is approximately equivalent to lottery voting, except with a minimum support threshold for a candidate to actually win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_ballot

So it's not #sortition, but the inverse. #StochasticElections

@dredmorbius This is right up my alley! I'm an engineer with background in digital signal processing, and what I concluded several years ago is that elections are DSP systems. This has lots of implications, but one of them is that dithering can fix a lot of problems by injecting randomness.

I wrote up my work here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1liNMcOWwVSRLHesoYCfjs4GH0QLBGCjB/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114516458166061722132&rtpof=true&sd=true

It may be a little dense, but would love your thoughts.

#sortition #electiondesign #StochasticElections