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Has any city or town anywhere tried a sortition model for city or town council? If so, how did it work? I’m thinking modern day, not Ancient Greece.

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No jurisdiction has REPLACED an elected government with sortition, but several have "add-ons." Ostbelgien, (East Belgium) with a population of just 77,000 has a permanent (but rotating) multi-body sortition system, and Paris also has a similar system. Both only supplement the elected legislative bodies.

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