Reducing the amount of voters can be good because it increases the remaining voters’ motive to become well informed instead of remaining rationally ignorant, but it won’t work if people just self refrain, because the people who refrain will probably me exactly those that should remain.
Using sortition to pick a representative subset of the population to vote solves this problem.
Reducing the amount of voters can be good because it increases the remaining voters’ motive to become well informed instead of remaining rationally ignorant, but it won’t work if people just self refrain, because the people who refrain will probably me exactly those that should remain.
Using sortition to pick a representative subset of the population to vote solves this problem.