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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.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.