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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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154 Articles, 31 Quick Links, 1534 Comments, 12 Diaries, 3 Series, 8 Polls

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Turning Out the Voters

Favorite Son, Fusion, Two Parties or a Better Democracy

What Might be the Best Voting System?

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Are More Political Parties Possible Here?

Making Choices

Perverse Delivery Charges

What's Wrong with Approval Voting

Do IRV Voters Just Need Training?

IRV Used to Rank Voting Systems

What's Wrong with First-Choice Voting?

A Voter's Quandry

Bottom-up Electoral Reform

Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

Yet Another Balanced Voting Method

Two-Candidate Elections

What is so Special about Balanced Approval Voting?

Obstruction of Voter Expression

The National Popular Vote

Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College?

Three Ingredients

Who Pays Taxes?

The Level Election Playing Field

A First Experience with Ranked Voting

Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics?

Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems

Collect Accurate Data and Analyze it Properly

Should Legislatures Use Balanced Approval Voting? (Hint: They already do)

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

Illusions of Ending the Two-Party Duopoly

What Could be Wrong with Ranked-Choice Voting?

What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting?

The Second Interstate Vote Initiative

Protecting our environment

Sinister Forces

The Electoral College

Ranked Voting

How Biased is IRV?

Handicaps in Score Elections

Just a Little Off-balance

Voting Systems Without Bias

Neither Positive nor Negative but Balanced Voting

BAV Now Appears in Wikipedia

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

Coping with Big Wealth

Spoiled Again

Shooting Down Ranked Voting Systems

Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect

Who Will Win this Election?

Approval Voting Fails to be Balanced

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