Justice in voting by demand revelation

The demand-revealing method of making public choices, in its standard form,1 has a feature that many people regard as unjust, namely that it gives more voting power to a rich man than to a poor one. Although it can be argued, in defense of the method, that a rich man has more political power anyway, it remains true that the method gives him additional power. It is the purpose of this note to suggest a modification of the method that can remove this objection. The modification can also be used to increase the power of the rich still more if that is considered desirable.