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In governance, sortition is the selection of public officials or jurors at random, i.e. by lottery, in order to obtain a representative sample. [1] [2] [3] [4]In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal characteristic of democracy.
However, s. 631(3.1) goes on to say that a judge can order that the clerk of the court shall only call out the number on each card, thereby withholding the names of the jury members. This generally takes place upon application by the prosecutor or when the judge deems it necessary to protect the safety and privacy of the jury members.
Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. . This is as opposed to closed list, in which party lists are in a predetermined, fixed order by the time of the election and gives the general voter no influence at all on the position of the candidates placed on the party l
Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but the two are derived by different methods, so they are listed separately.
All information collected, whether through a written questionnaire or through questions answered orally in the courtroom, and regardless of whether the potential juror is eventually selected for the trial, is public, unless the judge issues an order to seal part of the record to protect a particular juror's privacy. [17]
A random ballot or random dictatorship is a randomized electoral system where the election is decided on the basis of a single randomly-selected ballot. [1] [2] A closely-related variant is called random serial (or sequential) dictatorship, which repeats the procedure and draws another ballot if multiple candidates are tied on the first ballot.
Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.
The Cangjie code of a character is a string of English letters each representing a selected Cangjie component in the character. For example, the Cangjie codes of the characters in 漢字排檢法 (Methods for Chinese character sorting and retrieving) are 漢(ETLO)字(JND)排(QLMY)檢(DOMO)法(EGI), and can be sorted into a Cangjie-code order of ...