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Sortition Foundation

  • What is a Citizens' Assembly?
    • What is deliberation?
  • What is a Democratic Lottery?
    • Invitation to register interest
      • Invitation materials
      • Registration page
      • Who receives an invitation to register?
    • The selection
      • Targets - what and why
      • Targets - when and how
      • Selection algorithms
    • Confirming participation
      • Keeping people warm
  • Planning a Democratic Lottery
    • Democratic Lottery timeline
    • Before the first planning meeting
    • Getting enough registrations
    • Making invites accessible
    • Pitfalls to avoid
    • Questions about inclusivity
    • Setting targets
    • Setting targets 2
  • Running selections
    • Creating a new assembly
    • Respondent data format
    • Target data format
  • Running replacements
  • Data and the law
    • User Data Agreement
  • Help & Support

Running selections

Running a selection is a key stage of the democratic lottery.

In this section we discuss:

  • What respondent data should look like and how to work with it.
  • What target data should look like and how to work with it.
  • How to test whether our targets are coherent and feasible.
  • How to set the selection algorithm running.
  • How to understand output, including error messages.

Creating a new assembly

Setting up a new assembly on OpenDLP

Respondent data format

Required format for respondent data

Target data format

Required format for target data

Support links

  • GitHub
  • Sortition Foundation
  • User Data Agreement

OpenDLP is an open source platform for Democratic Lottery and Citizens' Assembly management.