&gt;<i>My proposal doesn&#x27;t depend on people actually being asked. It&#x27;s more of &quot;what would people say, if they were asked, and given all relevant objective information&quot;. Your scenario is ruled out.</i><p>This clarification rules out your proposal as any kind of actually implementable system then, because it collapses to having a single authority who &quot;knows&quot; (how?) what the people would say.<p>If it doesn&#x27;t involve actually asking people, then it&#x27;s not really a polling of perceptions, but some person&#x27;s idea of what those perceptions would be.