Your guide to democratic lotteries

Documentation for the Open Democratic Lottery Platform — an open source tool for running Citizens' Assemblies and democratic lotteries.

How does a democratic lottery work?

These guides follow a democratic lottery from the first plan to the final panel, and show how OpenDLP helps at each stage.

Plan your lottery

Work out what you need before you start: the data to gather, the targets your panel should meet, and how to get enough people to register.
Invite people to register

Send invitations to people selected by lottery, and give them a registration page that collects what your targets need.
Run the selection

Give OpenDLP your respondents and your targets, and it selects a group of people that matches those targets in a fair way.
Replace people who drop out

If anyone drops out, select replacements so that the panel still matches your targets.

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