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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 is so Special about Balanced Approval Voting?

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems

Making Choices

What Might be the Best Voting System?

Collect Accurate Data and Analyze it Properly

Two-Candidate Elections

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting?

Are More Political Parties Possible Here?

Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics?

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

Should Nader have Won the 2000 Election in Florida?

Ranked Voting

Do IRV Voters Just Need Training?

Self-Expression Versus Actual Effectiveness in Voting

Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College?

Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

Spoiled Again

Obstruction of Voter Expression

Three Ingredients

A Third Strike for Ranked-choice Voting

What's Wrong with Approval Voting

Perverse Delivery Charges

Neither Positive nor Negative but Balanced Voting

The Second Interstate Vote Initiative

Yet Another Balanced Voting Method

Bottom-up Electoral Reform

Instant Runoff - Balanced once Again

A Voter's Quandry

Illusions of Ending the Two-Party Duopoly

Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect

IRV Used to Rank Voting Systems

Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler (Corrected version)

How Would Balanced Voting Help?

The Distraction of Score Voting

How Electability Frustrates Democracy

Arrow's Theorem and Overstatements

Who Can Compete in Our Elections?

The Level Election Playing Field

Similarities Between Star Voting and Balanced Approval Voting

Balanced: Plurality or Approval?

Star-like Voting

Can Less be Better?

What About STAR Voting?

Counting Votes to Make Voting Count

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

Coping with Big Wealth

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