Nicolas K. Blanchard is a French doctoral candidate doing research on the interface between mathematics, computer science and political science. After studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he started his PhD with Nicolas Schabanel on probabilistic algorithms before joining the Random Sample Voting Project to fight against vote buying. He is a founding member of the Public Opinion Platform Special Exploratory Committee, an initiative that seeks to hack representative democracy to make it more direct and participatory without major legal changes. He is currently in the process of publishing his first book on randomness in politics.