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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

A Voter's Quandry

What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting?

What About STAR Voting?

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Favorite Son, Fusion, Two Parties or a Better Democracy

Ranked Voting

Do IRV Voters Just Need Training?

What Might be the Best Voting System?

Perverse Delivery Charges

Let's Have More Political Parties

Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College?

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

Should Nader have Won the 2000 Election in Florida?

Spoiled Again

Bottom-up Electoral Reform

Who Will Win this Election? Part II

Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting?

Self-Expression Versus Actual Effectiveness in Voting

A Parliament in Washington?

Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems

Counting Votes to Make Voting Count

Should Balanced Approval Voting be Simplified?

Ranked Voting Articles

Arrow's Theorem and Overstatements

Who Can Compete in Our Elections?

Making Choices

Who Pays Taxes?

How Electability Frustrates Democracy

Families of Voting Systems

Instant Runoff - Balanced once Again

Handicaps in Score Elections

Why I Am Not a Liberal

Two-Candidate Elections

How Did Trump Ever Win?

Runoff in a Star Election

Are More Political Parties Possible Here?

Obstruction of Voter Expression

Can Less be Better?

Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

Coping with Big Wealth

Partisanship and Trade Unions

Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics?

Face Value or Saving Face

IRV Used to Rank Voting Systems

Shooting Down Ranked Voting Systems

Conservatives Without Conscience

Voting Systems Without Bias

Now What? More Piracy?

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