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Sortition Magic

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Sortition Magic is a script in R for random selection of citizens’ assemblies that is based on the algorithm of simulated annealing.

Download version 6.0


And here is a very cool version that works on the multiple cores of the CPU at the same time! It is called Sortition Magic Multicore. You can use it on laptops, clusters and supercomputers as well. It is especially useful when it comes to conducting a large number of draws – it simply works faster.