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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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155 Articles, 31 Quick Links, 1539 Comments, 12 Diaries, 3 Series, 8 Polls

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Voters Need to Understand How Votes are Counted

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Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College?

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Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

BAV Now Appears in Wikipedia

IRV Used to Rank Voting Systems

Favorite Son, Fusion, Two Parties or a Better Democracy

Notation for Voting Systems

Conservatives Without Conscience

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Instant Runoff Balanced Voting (IRBV)

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Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Liberate Yourself from the Mainstream Media

The Distraction of Score Voting

Turning Out the Voters

The Level Election Playing Field

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Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems

Who Will Win this Election?

Who Decides?

How Would Balanced Voting Help?

What Could be Wrong with Ranked-Choice Voting?

How Did Trump Ever Win?

Why Bother to Meter Electric Power?

BAV: What Could Go Wrong?

Spoiled Again

How Electability Frustrates Democracy

Range Voting

Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting?

Should Nader have Won the 2000 Election in Florida?

Balanced Approval Limitations

Ranked Voting Articles

Approval Voting Fails to be Balanced

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

Voting Systems in Action

Collect Accurate Data and Analyze it Properly

Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler (Corrected version)

Comparing BAV with Ranked Choice Voting

Families of Voting Systems

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

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