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I would like for there to be a greater discourse on "true representation". When I look at citizens per representative I absolutely don't believe it's representative.

I think for congress it's near 600,000 or something now. In LA we have the county board of supervisors, and that's a group of 5 people running a city of 10,000,000

I find these numbers mind-blowingly unrepresentative, nowhere near "true representation".

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One radical proposal would be to pick a representative of the population (Read : Stratified Sampling) and allow them to vote.

Juries - chosen at random and vetted from a representative sampling of the population - choose whether a defendant is guilty or not. It's part of the civic duty of a US citizen / resident.

Could we make choosing people to choose whether a law should be passed or not a similar responsibility? "Oh I have to take a week off to go to Washington DC, there's some law I have to hear testimony on and decide the outcome."

First I've heard of such an idea!

We would need to be very sure that the sample individuals are, in fact, chosen randomly.

Every input to elections is a potential vulnerability; it's best of those processes are participatory and verifiable as opposed to black-box.

Since you mention 10,000,000 people, you are confusing Los Angeles County with the City of Los Angeles. There may be 5 County Supervisors, but the city has a mayor and 15 council members. The other cities (Burbank, Santa Clarita, Glendale, Long Beach, etc.) also have their own mayors and city councils and whatnot.

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