Merits and Demerits of Compulsory Voting
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@clay but “statistically random” does not define the constituencies from which the samples are being drawn. That is a political question, not a mathematical one.
As a thought experiment, suppose a jury itself were ideally representative in whatever sense is considered, and that they elected representatives. What stops those representatives from ultimately adjusting the manner in which future jurors are sampled? Especially, for example, if the question of stratification were raised as a political issue for jurors to consider, as it likely would be.
I think you should raise this as a separate topic here so we can all engage in a more organized way.