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June 10, 2014

Should we Change our Two-Party System?

By Paul Cohen

Could we adopt a voting system that would break us away from the two-party system? Should we?

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A series of articles here on OpEd News, Balanced Voting, explored a family of voting methods, any of which, if adopted, would in time break us of our longstanding habit of choosing between only two major political parties.

The poll question is: Should we Change our Voting System to Promote More Viable Parties?



Authors Bio:

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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