I hear it used in Southeast Asia a lot and thought it might be a linguistic holdover from the British colonial days here.
In the United States as far as I know we have always used the word "mathematics"
Why not give them votes according to how much money the country is delivering to the common budget. It could be gross money or net money. If it is net money then the spending will decrease faster.
I was actually living in Nice when the EU summit was held on this very question. This was also at the time of the 2000 elections when Europeans were scratching their heads over the US Electoral College system.
The wisdom of our founding fathers became evident as the EU tried to do everything except “whatever America does.”
A lower house based on population, an upper house based on territory, an executive elected based on a winner take all electoral college system.
Hey, worked for us for more than 200 years...
2+2=5 (for large values of 2)
Ok, I have to go get more coffee, and maybe read this again.
Some things done with maths really surprise me.
Like the time my boss used a markov process to predict billable hours...