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Or to aid their families and friends, or to adopt policies that benefit their industry or hometown or social class -- I considered similar systems when I was writing the ancestor (probably unconsciously influenced by Eddings; I haven't read him in years, though), but decided that they were transparently unworkable.
Yes, it seems both too drastic, and not really able to accomplish the desired result.
Funny, I've wondered about a similarly drastic action though to improve the quality of voting, namely for each election select a random 1% (or some such -- small enough to not crash the economy) of the population and lock them up with nothing to do but learn about what's going on in the country and in the world and debate who they should vote for. In the end, unlike in the jury system, it should still be a secret ballot. Of course, if as many people were exempted as in jury duty, then it would be biased. One would have to see how much exemption was unavoidable, and and see whether the bias could be sufficiently minimized.
If it's small enough not to crash the economy, then is it big enough to reliably alter the election results? And who provides the information for them to read through?