This is an interesting attempt. I think that most of us would support more of this kind of thing.
http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/ Aside from the interest of the methodology, people here might be interested in the content. The California "deliberative poll"<http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/california/>had two questions of interest: Allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference, so that the winner can be decided without a second election. (61% support before, 58% after) Elect more than one representative from each Assembly and Senate district with the winners receiving seats proportional to votes (48% support before, 49% after) I'm personally disappointed that support did not significantly increase on either question. I suspect that there was not a lot of discussion of these issues. Still, it is interesting to see the raw results and demographic breakdowns on these questions. Jameson Quinn
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