The Citizens Jury on Election Recounts is a privately funded entity that has assembled 24 jurors and given them stipends and various resources to evaluate the recount process and make recommendations. The "jurors" are randomly selected regular people.
"I think there needs to be many different examinations of the lessons learned from the recount," said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who, along with Rep. Laura Brod, R-New Prague, has endorsed the citizen jury concept for this hyperlocal and hypertopical issue. "Citizens are the ones participating in the elections, and they have felt the effects of not having a senator for many months. They have an important stake in describing what they've learned and making suggestions for improvements."
Will they be novel? Will they be a filter for expertise that will (hopefully) be available to them? Will they be a good filter? Will they prove that the masses are asses, or will they prove that there is truth in community? We'll see.
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You should be on the committee. Seriously.
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But are they Real Americans?
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