Modern voting systems have to defend against process corruption where some small town somewhere goes haywire and fabricates votes. Because the number of participants in the Doge elections was small they don't really have to worry about that so the constraints on their elections were different.
I don't think there is a debate to be had that modern elections are using an optimal process. There are also a lot of good philosophical and practical arguments to giving a majority power. The system that gets the absolute best outcomes probably puts minorities into power some % of the time - but that it too complex to explain to people and the risks when dealing with large numbers of people are too high.
I don't think there is a debate to be had that modern elections are using an optimal process. There are also a lot of good philosophical and practical arguments to giving a majority power. The system that gets the absolute best outcomes probably puts minorities into power some % of the time - but that it too complex to explain to people and the risks when dealing with large numbers of people are too high.