Personally I'd like to replace elections with a lottery and make the
proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets their sole source of funding.

If you don't want the office buy tickets for the candidate of your choice

How many people would buy a ticket for the oval office if they had a
lottery long shot at getting the job?

The prime qualification for holding the office now is to win a popularity
contest. How could pure chance be any worse?

If pure chance is too scary, how about holding a lottery for seats on the
electoral college and letting them elect the president without a popular
vote? I'm sure if it works for choosing a president we could scale it
down
to the state level for congress critters and other elected pests.

Actually, my first thoughts were to fill all offices by a draft, pay no more
than expences
and make you come home when the term was up. If you couldn't steal yourself
rich the
lawyer types would definitely lack motivation to seek additional time in D.
C.

Harold
KD5SAK