Majority? Expressivity? Strategy?

[Richard Moore]

DEMOREP1 at aol.com wrote:

> For the benefit of newer folks ---  I again suggest that only YES majority
> (above zero utility) choices get elected to executive and judicial offices.

What do you mean, "above zero utility"? What are the upper and lower bounds
of utility? Many on this list use a utility range from 0 to 10, or from 0 to
100,
so which candidates have "below zero utility"? Or perhaps you mean one of
the following: above midrange, above mean, or above median. Note that
utilities are very personal -- some voters have more at stake than others,
yet most will place their favorite and least favorite at the extreme ends of
the scale. What weighting scheme would you use to average such disparate
ratings?

On the other hand, strategic values are either positive or negative, and the
sum of any voter's strategic values for all candidates will be zero (if he
votes
for all the candidates, his votes cancel each other out).

On "majority rule": I don't rate it as high on my list of criteria as, say,
monotonicity.

Richard