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Sortition Foundation

The Sortition Foundation is the UK's leading organisation specifically dedicated to sortition — the selection of decision-makers by random lot rather than election. Their flagship campaign is the House of Citizens: replacing the appointed House of Lords with a chamber of randomly selected citizens who serve fixed, non-renewable terms.

Beyond the Lords campaign, the foundation promotes sortition more broadly: in local government, planning processes, and deliberative policy forums. Their case is that random selection produces more representative, less partisan, and more considered decision-making than competitive elections — a position they support with reference to the growing body of evidence from citizens' assemblies worldwide.

The foundation has become a key reference point for anyone working on democratic innovation in the UK and internationally.