Proposition 11 in California has won. This is the first American
success for a model I was the first to propose in a published article
back in the mid-1970s.
I have long advocated the use of random selection in political processes and I've waited a long time. Proposition 11 creates three pools of Californians: Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Random selection is applied to these pools to come up with 14 citizens selected to design the State legislative districts in the 2011 apportionment. The vote was 5,758,709 for the proposition, 5,577,112 against. A difference of 181,597 votes. The margin of victory will be greater as time goes on.
San Francisco, true to its century long tradition of voting against any change voted against Prop 11.