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The election deception: why the founders of democracy used a lottery instead
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The election deception: why the founders of democracy used a lottery instead

Why your vote isn’t as democratic as you think; and what the Greeks used instead.

We have been conditioned to believe that the “ballot box” is the ultimate symbol of freedom. We are taught that the right to vote is the finish line of democratic progress.

But if you could transport an ancient Athenian, the very people who invented demokratia, to a modern polling station, they wouldn’t congratulate us on our “freedom.”

To the Greeks, the root of democracy wasn’t the vote. It was the lottery.

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