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Videos about Election By Jury (EBJ):

• Our YouTube channel

• A short 1:30 intro to EBJ

• A longer 5 min intro to EBJ

Essays about EBJ:

• The viral essay that spawned this website

• Journalist Simon Trelkeld's many op-eds promoting civic juries

• H.G. Wells championing EBJ, back in the 1900s

• Full research paper on EBJ by Micah Erfan

• How EBJ leads to greater Alignment and Capability

• How EBJ solves the problems of ignorance, misinformation, and echo chambers

• Juries vs Citizen Assemblies

EBJ in practice:

• EBJ used in various ways in Georgia

  • How Athens County (GA) uses a jury to appoint members to the Overview Commission

  • How Cherokee County Water & Sewerage Authority uses a Grand Jury to appoint its Board of Directors

  • Georgia's use of Grand Juries to appoint their Boards of Equalization

    • News segment about the Grand Jury firing someone from the board for being incompetent

  • DeKalb County (Georgia)'s historical use of Grand Juries to elect their Board of Commissioners

• How the Republic of Venice used randomly selected juries to elect its head of state

• Northern Italian city-states in the Middle Ages using randomly selected juries to select council members

EBJ Implementation Details:

• A detailed look into the different options for structuring an election-jury

• Statistical analysis around the ideal jury size