Invitation to register interest
We start a democratic lottery process by sending out invitations inviting people to register their interest. We can do this in various ways:
- By post: letters are sent to randomly selected addresses;
- By door knocking: a team goes out to randomly selected streets to speak to people at their home;
- By email: messages are sent to people already on a database.
The postal method is standard in the UK, Australia and some other countries. We use door knocking for a big transnational recruitments across the EU.
Why bother with invites?
Sending out invitations offers another opportunity to introduce randomness into the democratic lottery process. If we have an open call for people to register, then we run the risk of our pool of potential participants being dominated by the so called “usual suspects” – people who are more politically engaged, and more used to sharing their point of view.
If, instead, we randomly select a subset of the population, and invite only those people to participate, we tend to attract people who may not traditionally have engaged with democratic processes.
Invitation materials
What do the invitation materials look like?
Registration page
How does a person register their interest?
Who receives an invitation to register?
Who receives an invitation to register?