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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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Friday, August 6, 2021
Notation for Voting Systems The great similarity of both the terminology and notation shared by approval voting and balanced approval voting is explored in this article. The article also points out a sometimes troubling assumption behind some common notations for scoring voting systems that can easily be unnoticed. .
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Friday, August 6, 2021Notation for Voting Systems The great similarity of both the terminology and notation shared by approval voting and balanced approval voting is explored in this article. The article also points out a sometimes troubling assumption behind some common notations for scoring voting systems that can easily be unnoticed. .
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Friday, April 26, 2019
Establishment and Exercise Most amendments to our Constitution come through changes in the interpretation of its words by the federal courts. The meanings of the words, so assigned, often drift away from their common usage. This article suggests such a change through a change to the interpretation of the word "religion".
Friday, April 26, 2019Establishment and Exercise Most amendments to our Constitution come through changes in the interpretation of its words by the federal courts. The meanings of the words, so assigned, often drift away from their common usage. This article suggests such a change through a change to the interpretation of the word "religion".
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Saturday, July 31, 2021
Retrospective on Balanced Voting Three qualities needed for a good voting system have been identified in this series and this article reviews those important properties.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Saturday, July 31, 2021Retrospective on Balanced Voting Three qualities needed for a good voting system have been identified in this series and this article reviews those important properties.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Voting Systems Without Bias The term "balanced" is explored and an alternative term is suggested.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Tuesday, December 14, 2021Voting Systems Without Bias The term "balanced" is explored and an alternative term is suggested.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The Two-party Duopoly Sure, but What Else is Wrong? Why worry about the voting system when there are so many problems with our elections? This article explores the impact of BAV adoption on what is commonly considered the more serious problems with our elections.
Series: Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views), Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Tuesday, July 5, 2022The Two-party Duopoly Sure, but What Else is Wrong? Why worry about the voting system when there are so many problems with our elections? This article explores the impact of BAV adoption on what is commonly considered the more serious problems with our elections.
Series: Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views), Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
What's Wrong with First-Choice Voting? This is the second article in a series on voting. This article takes a critical look at our traditional way of voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Thursday, May 22, 2014What's Wrong with First-Choice Voting? This is the second article in a series on voting. This article takes a critical look at our traditional way of voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 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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Monday, September 17, 2012
Let's Have More Political Parties Is another electoral system possible? In the U.S. might it be possible to adopt an electoral system that insists on more than two polarized parties? This article suggests that the answer is yes.
Monday, September 17, 2012Let's Have More Political Parties Is another electoral system possible? In the U.S. might it be possible to adopt an electoral system that insists on more than two polarized parties? This article suggests that the answer is yes.
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Families of Voting Systems Just because two voting systems use the same ballots does not mean they are the same. How the votes are counted and how the winner is determined are equally important. This article describes such variations of balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views), Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views)
Monday, March 11, 2024Families of Voting Systems Just because two voting systems use the same ballots does not mean they are the same. How the votes are counted and how the winner is determined are equally important. This article describes such variations of balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views), Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views)
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Thursday, January 7, 2021
Is Democracy Worth Saving? In earlier articles we have assumed, without much explanation, that more political parties would improve democracy and that would be a good thing. Not everyone accepts this premise, however.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Thursday, January 7, 2021Is Democracy Worth Saving? In earlier articles we have assumed, without much explanation, that more political parties would improve democracy and that would be a good thing. Not everyone accepts this premise, however.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 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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Thursday, October 19, 2023
Good Strategic Voting IRV is such a complex voting system it might seem that strategic voting simply could not happen. But this article shows that it could become a concern.
Series: Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views), Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Thursday, October 19, 2023Good Strategic Voting IRV is such a complex voting system it might seem that strategic voting simply could not happen. But this article shows that it could become a concern.
Series: Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views), Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting? A basic flaw in the concept behind IRV is presented.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views), Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 views)
Sunday, April 10, 2016Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting? A basic flaw in the concept behind IRV is presented.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views), Ranked Voting (35 Articles, 44937 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 (98 Articles, 124390 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 (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
A Parliament in Washington? The twelfth Amendment to our Constitution requires that the Electoral College must choose presidents by a majority vote. While a truly deliberative body might be expected to reach a majority decision, our present-day Electoral College no longer deliberates. This poses interesting implications for a true multiple-party democracy in the U.S.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Wednesday, June 25, 2014A Parliament in Washington? The twelfth Amendment to our Constitution requires that the Electoral College must choose presidents by a majority vote. While a truly deliberative body might be expected to reach a majority decision, our present-day Electoral College no longer deliberates. This poses interesting implications for a true multiple-party democracy in the U.S.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Balanced Ration Voting The virtues of balanced voting are reviewed, leading up to the introduction of a new balanced voting system that, like range voting and IRV, allow a voter to distinguish between favored candidates (and between disfavored ones). Unique to this system is that it takes into consideration that voters cannot typically be very familiar with an unlimited number of candidates.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Tuesday, February 23, 2016Balanced Ration Voting The virtues of balanced voting are reviewed, leading up to the introduction of a new balanced voting system that, like range voting and IRV, allow a voter to distinguish between favored candidates (and between disfavored ones). Unique to this system is that it takes into consideration that voters cannot typically be very familiar with an unlimited number of candidates.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Why is Balanced Approval Voting so Hard to Understand? Voting experts have had particular difficulty understanding BAV. This article shows why that happened.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Monday, July 25, 2022Why is Balanced Approval Voting so Hard to Understand? Voting experts have had particular difficulty understanding BAV. This article shows why that happened.
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
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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 (98 Articles, 124390 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 (98 Articles, 124390 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, 11405 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, 11405 views)
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Monday, July 5, 2021
The Perfect Voting System Strategic voting can occur using any voting system and people can be pretty inventive about it. In this article we take a look as how strategic voting might affect balanced-approval voting and we see that though it will happen, the damage will not be severe. .
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
Monday, July 5, 2021The Perfect Voting System Strategic voting can occur using any voting system and people can be pretty inventive about it. In this article we take a look as how strategic voting might affect balanced-approval voting and we see that though it will happen, the damage will not be severe. .
Series: Balanced Voting (98 Articles, 124390 views)
