A Fair, Traceable, Auditable and Participatory Randomization Tool for Legal Systems

06/04/2020
by   Marcos Vinicius M. Silva, et al.
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Many real-world scenarios require the random selection of one or more individuals from a pool of eligible candidates. One example of especial social relevance refers to the legal system, in which the jurors and judges are commonly picked according to some probability distribution aiming to avoid biased decisions. In this scenario, ensuring auditability of the random drawing procedure is imperative to promote confidence in its fairness. With this goal in mind, this article describes a protocol for random drawings specially designed for use in legal systems. The proposed design combines the following properties: security by design, ensuring the fairness of the random draw as long as at least one participant behaves honestly; auditability by any interested party, even those having no technical background, using only public information; and statistical robustness, supporting drawings where candidates may have distinct probability distributions. Moreover, it is capable of inviting and engaging as participating stakeholders the main interested parties of a legal process, in a way that promotes process transparency, public trust and institutional resilience. An open-source implementation is also provided as supplementary material.

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