Why I think it would be better: no reason to bother campaigning, so they don't spend an entire year spouting meaningless platitudes or doing fundraisers or putting out ads that make people want to gouge out their eyes and ears. Since the results are arbitrary, they should feel no sense of entitlement coming from a perceived 'mandate' by winning a slim majority. Since the outcome isn't determined by voting, you don't wind up with a pair of crappy, made for TV, wishy washy candidates that no one really likes to begin with - the parties can actually nominate someone they might like to have in office. You don't have TV people talking about the candidates clothes or hairstyle or body language or other 'election analysis' garbage. Fewer insta-bang polls to spit back what the public's emotional weather is like.
Why I think it would be a little worse: since the outcome is arbitrary, there's no incentive to do any work if someone is elected, though I'm not convinced this is a good reason to not go with the idea. My only legitimate concern is that there's less incentive to not be corrupt. But if you make the punishment for it something a lot worse than it is - like getting locked up in the sex predator place - and do more to enforce it, I think the problem irons itself out.
I call it a gamblocracy or randomocracy or - leadership is decided by chance. I'm standing behind this idea. 'Roulette voting' by 2020: taking away democracy will make it stronger.
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