[EM] Re: democratic aggregation of utility

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

Mr. A. Simmons wrote-

I wonder if it's really possible to add utilities
meaningfully.  The example you give, of a living wage,
doesn't seem to be amenable to such a thing.  What would we
actually measure in order to assign real numbers to physical
examples?  Stick electrodes in people's brains?  Personally,
I think the real-space model that is so ubiquitous in the
social sciences (e.g. factor analysis) is more of a metaphor.

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D- For newer folks, I again have to mention that each elector is supposed to 
have an equal vote.

For legislative body elections, most election reform folks want some sort of 
proportional representation method (to show that such legislative body is 
supposed to be a substitute of a meeting of ALL such electors -- in which 
each elector would have 1 vote on each bill in the body --- regardless of 
his/her intensity about any particular bill).

For executive and judicial office elections the same principle applies -- an 
*equal* vote per elector --- regardless of his/her intensity about any 
particular candidate.