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Attended college thanks to the generous state support of education in 1960's America. Earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois followed by post doctoral research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Taught for several years at Lehigh University prior to a short stint at Bell Laboratories but followed by a much longer career at NEC punctuated by ten U.S. and international patents in the general area to semiconductor applications. Now living in a comfortable Maine retirement community and focused on the prospect of upgrading democracy by means of an improved voting system.
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Sunday, September 3, 2023
How Did Trump Ever Win? Trump owes his nomination in 2016 to plurality voting. This is not news to anyone who has followed this series of articles, but it is a message that is worth repeating. The real purpose of this article is to gather into one short article the important reasons for favoring balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Sunday, September 3, 2023How Did Trump Ever Win? Trump owes his nomination in 2016 to plurality voting. This is not news to anyone who has followed this series of articles, but it is a message that is worth repeating. The real purpose of this article is to gather into one short article the important reasons for favoring balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Why Bother to Meter Electric Power? Qui Bono? Who profits from charging end customers for electric power usage? It is the producers of power who produce that electric power by burning fossil fuels. So why peruse policies that perpetuate this approach?
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
Tuesday, August 29, 2023Why Bother to Meter Electric Power? Qui Bono? Who profits from charging end customers for electric power usage? It is the producers of power who produce that electric power by burning fossil fuels. So why peruse policies that perpetuate this approach?
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
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Thursday, July 20, 2023
Taking Advantage (of a Foolish Electrical Billing Policy) This is a fictional illustration of what might go wrong as a result of charging for delivery of each KWH of electric power.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
Thursday, July 20, 2023Taking Advantage (of a Foolish Electrical Billing Policy) This is a fictional illustration of what might go wrong as a result of charging for delivery of each KWH of electric power.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
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Saturday, July 8, 2023
Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect This article follows up on a misstatement in the previous article and explores some implications. In particular, it makes some comparisons between several different voting systems and approches to comparing their merits.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
Saturday, July 8, 2023Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect This article follows up on a misstatement in the previous article and explores some implications. In particular, it makes some comparisons between several different voting systems and approches to comparing their merits.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Electrical Delivery: The Poor and the Elderly Will Pick Up the Tab The second article in this series shows that because of the way electric bills are now computed, the natural evolution will be for rising prices paid mostly by the poor and the elderly. This argues for a change in how the bills are computed.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023Electrical Delivery: The Poor and the Elderly Will Pick Up the Tab The second article in this series shows that because of the way electric bills are now computed, the natural evolution will be for rising prices paid mostly by the poor and the elderly. This argues for a change in how the bills are computed.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
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Sunday, June 4, 2023
Balanced Condorcet Voting Can Condorcet voting be balanced? There is a way, but it seems confusing and probably not worth applying in real elections. But observations about ranked voting and about Condorcet voting are also found in the article
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
Sunday, June 4, 2023Balanced Condorcet Voting Can Condorcet voting be balanced? There is a way, but it seems confusing and probably not worth applying in real elections. But observations about ranked voting and about Condorcet voting are also found in the article
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
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Thursday, May 25, 2023
Coping with Big Wealth Trying to tax away concentrations of great wealth is politically difficult and historically it does not seem to work. Here, we suggest a possible alternative.
Thursday, May 25, 2023Coping with Big Wealth Trying to tax away concentrations of great wealth is politically difficult and historically it does not seem to work. Here, we suggest a possible alternative.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Perverse Delivery Charges "Delivery" seems to take on a variety of meanings, but we are often charged for it. This article examines what this entails, but particularly for electric power.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
Wednesday, April 12, 2023Perverse Delivery Charges "Delivery" seems to take on a variety of meanings, but we are often charged for it. This article examines what this entails, but particularly for electric power.
Series: Electricity Delivery Charges (4 Articles, 6030 views)
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Friday, March 17, 2023
Star Voting on Fabric Star voting has attracted some attention recently. A short video on the subject led me to think about this system and this article sketches a few thoughts about it.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Friday, March 17, 2023Star Voting on Fabric Star voting has attracted some attention recently. A short video on the subject led me to think about this system and this article sketches a few thoughts about it.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
Escaping Duopoly Republicans are Red Democrats are Blue Must we be stuck With only those two? Can we escape the two-party duopoly? Probably we can, but indications are that neither IRV nor approval voting is the right path.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
Thursday, February 16, 2023Escaping Duopoly Republicans are Red Democrats are Blue Must we be stuck With only those two? Can we escape the two-party duopoly? Probably we can, but indications are that neither IRV nor approval voting is the right path.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
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Friday, January 27, 2023
The Level Election Playing Field Leveling the playing field is needed. But it should not be seen as a scary prospect.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Friday, January 27, 2023The Level Election Playing Field Leveling the playing field is needed. But it should not be seen as a scary prospect.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Sunday, January 15, 2023
Suicide is an Indicator of What? Why do we no longer hear about the high rate of suicide in Sweden? That used to demonstrate how inferior socialism must be to capitalism. But what does it say now?
Sunday, January 15, 2023Suicide is an Indicator of What? Why do we no longer hear about the high rate of suicide in Sweden? That used to demonstrate how inferior socialism must be to capitalism. But what does it say now?
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Monday, January 9, 2023
Star-like Voting These are just some thoughts about Condorcet voting, particularly in connection to balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Monday, January 9, 2023Star-like Voting These are just some thoughts about Condorcet voting, particularly in connection to balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
Balanced Approval Limitations In recent articles we have tried to show BAV to improve on approval voting, probably the best of the widely promoted alternative voting systems. In this article we ask, but not entirely answer, whether we might improve on BAV.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Wednesday, December 14, 2022Balanced Approval Limitations In recent articles we have tried to show BAV to improve on approval voting, probably the best of the widely promoted alternative voting systems. In this article we ask, but not entirely answer, whether we might improve on BAV.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Monday, November 21, 2022
Reflections on Voters Most considerations of voting systems focus, understandably, on voting systems. Here we take a different perspective on the topic and ask what the voting system says about voters.
Series: Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views), Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Monday, November 21, 2022Reflections on Voters Most considerations of voting systems focus, understandably, on voting systems. Here we take a different perspective on the topic and ask what the voting system says about voters.
Series: Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views), Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Monday, October 24, 2022
Words Perpetuating the Two-Party System Something that we lose when there are more than two candidates in an election is a way to express opposition to one of the candidates. This important aspect of how voters feel is given no means of expression, either with ranked-choice voting or with approval voting. That is a serious flaw in these voting systems.
Series: Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views), Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Monday, October 24, 2022Words Perpetuating the Two-Party System Something that we lose when there are more than two candidates in an election is a way to express opposition to one of the candidates. This important aspect of how voters feel is given no means of expression, either with ranked-choice voting or with approval voting. That is a serious flaw in these voting systems.
Series: Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views), Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Saturday, October 1, 2022
Obstruction of Voter Expression At its root, the spoiler effect is caused by choosing a voting system that overly obstructs voters from adequately expressing their preferences. This problem is well known in the case of plurality voting but it also is a concern for ranked-choice voting (IRV) and for Approval Voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
Saturday, October 1, 2022Obstruction of Voter Expression At its root, the spoiler effect is caused by choosing a voting system that overly obstructs voters from adequately expressing their preferences. This problem is well known in the case of plurality voting but it also is a concern for ranked-choice voting (IRV) and for Approval Voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views), Ranked Voting (29 Articles, 36016 views)
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
The Distraction of Score Voting In discussing Balanced Approval Voting, there may not be need to discuss the paradigm of Score Voting at all. Nonetheless, it is a topic that people keep raising. This article explains that connection and lays out a common error in the common understanding of score voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Saturday, September 17, 2022The Distraction of Score Voting In discussing Balanced Approval Voting, there may not be need to discuss the paradigm of Score Voting at all. Nonetheless, it is a topic that people keep raising. This article explains that connection and lays out a common error in the common understanding of score voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
Could a Stealth Candidate Endanger a Balanced Approval Election? Any voting system is likely to come under attack by people or organizations seeking a favorable outcome from their own perspective. This article discusses how this might happen to Balanced Approval Voting and efforts that might be considered to make this kind of attack unsuccessful.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Thursday, August 25, 2022Could a Stealth Candidate Endanger a Balanced Approval Election? Any voting system is likely to come under attack by people or organizations seeking a favorable outcome from their own perspective. This article discusses how this might happen to Balanced Approval Voting and efforts that might be considered to make this kind of attack unsuccessful.
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
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Friday, August 5, 2022
Does Balance Suffice? A Balanced Evaluative system will end the two-party duopoly. But might balance alone be sufficient? Or maybe just being evaluative?
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
Friday, August 5, 2022Does Balance Suffice? A Balanced Evaluative system will end the two-party duopoly. But might balance alone be sufficient? Or maybe just being evaluative?
Series: Balanced Voting (87 Articles, 108367 views)
