[Election-Methods] Improved Approval Runoff

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 01:32 AM 8/21/2007, Paul Kislanko wrote:
>Just to make myself clear here, to a voter a "utility" is something like the
>electric company, or the municipal water supplier. "Utilities" is a category
>of stocks traded on various exchanges.
>
>They have nothing to do with how we vote.

Ah, this is really offensive.

Look it up, Paul!

>6 utility
>  (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation 
> involving choice

Were we proposing that the world "utility" appear on ballots, the 
objection that it could be confusing would be cogent. But we are not.