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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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152 Articles, 30 Quick Links, 1529 Comments, 12 Diaries, 3 Series, 8 Polls
Balanced Voting: Another View SHARE
Today I launched a new series
of articles covering much the same ground as at this
series does.but the organization will be a bit different. The
presentation will be in generally longer articles that cover a
specific topic more thoroughly. Even if you have followed this
series from the beginning, it is quite possible that you will find
the new and different presentation helpful.
Series: Balanced Voting (2 Articles, 169799 views), Ranked Voting (1 Articles, 63187 views)
Politics in the Post-Trump Era SHARE
I listen to current event and political podcasts quite a lot and recently I have started listening to the ones produced by Jacobin Magazine. These podcasts are usually thoughtful and fairly often on a topic that interests me. Still, they produce a number of shows, the episodes are often lengthy and it is hard to find the time to listen to all of them.
The current show in their program called The Dig I found to be a particularly thoughtful discussion of the situations that both the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States and if this is a topic that interests you then I would recommend it to you. Be warned that the discussion lasts for nearly two hours, however.
A Rand Study of Balanced Plurality Voting SHARE
Rand has reported on a study of likely outcomes in the 2000 elections to make a comparison between plurality voting and balanced plurality voting. In summary, voter participation improves with the balanced option and the margin of Biden's lead over Trump widens.
Series: Balanced Voting (2 Articles, 169799 views)
Decline of Empire SHARE
This discussion between Chris Hedges and Richard Wolf, depressing though it may be, makes the observation that our democracy is an illusion in part because it is the forces of wealth that choose the only two candidates we are allowed to consider. The election is guaranteed to be either a Democrat or a Republican.
Not surprisingly, they failed to make the point that this is the reason we should transition to Balanced Approval Voting.
Dirty Tricks that Corrupt our Elections SHARE
A lot of media attention today is focused on Russian involvement in corrupting our elections. Somehow, it almost seems that from the media's point of view it is not a problem if our elections are corrupted so long as it is not the Russians or presumably the Chinese, or likely a big handful of other nations who are doing it. But we should be concerned whoever is corrupting our elections - at least if you think democracy is an important value. This interview is more from this broader point of view; the Russians are not even mentioned. The problem is not the Russians, it is the corruption.
