Piece from Julian Dibbell for the Dead Media Project on the ancient Athenian kleroterion, the device they used to randomly select people for office. Via FoRK, in the thread(s) on the spamming California candidate for whatever.
(And yes, I think it's spam even though it's political and not commercial mail, because it used spam tactics: mailing from some spam relay in Korea with an apparently unrelated "From" address, to people who aren't even capable of being interested in the spammer's message, in this case non-residents of California.)
