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=head1 DESCRIPTION

Sortition is an unbiased method for "drawing straws" or "casting lots".  This
package implements the Sortition algorithm as described in RFC 3797, "Publicly
Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection"
(L<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3797>):

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This document describes a method for making random selections in such a way
that the unbiased nature of the choice is publicly verifiable.  As an example,
the selection of the voting members of the IETF Nominations Committee (NomCom)
from the pool of eligible volunteers is used.  Similar techniques would be
applicable to other cases.

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=head1 METHODS

=head2 Algorithm::Voting::Sortition->new( %args )

Constructs a new sortition object.