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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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154 Articles, 31 Quick Links, 1534 Comments, 12 Diaries, 3 Series, 8 Polls

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Turning Out the Voters

A Voter's Quandry

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

What About STAR Voting?

What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting?

Favorite Son, Fusion, Two Parties or a Better Democracy

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

What Might be the Best Voting System?

Do IRV Voters Just Need Training?

Let's Have More Political Parties

Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College?

Perverse Delivery Charges

Ranked Voting

Spoiled Again

Should Balanced Approval Voting be Simplified?

Who Pays Taxes?

A Parliament in Washington?

Self-Expression Versus Actual Effectiveness in Voting

Bottom-up Electoral Reform

Should Nader have Won the 2000 Election in Florida?

Who Will Win this Election? Part II

Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting?

Are More Political Parties Possible Here?

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems

Making Choices

How Did Trump Ever Win?

Runoff in a Star Election

Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

Counting Votes to Make Voting Count

Ranked Voting Articles

Who Can Compete in Our Elections?

Can Vote Suppression be Suppressed?

Instant Runoff - Balanced once Again

Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics?

IRV Used to Rank Voting Systems

Why I Am Not a Liberal

Coping with Big Wealth

Handicaps in Score Elections

Arrow's Theorem and Overstatements

Shooting Down Ranked Voting Systems

Why is Balanced Approval Voting so Hard to Understand?

Face Value or Saving Face

Liberate Yourself from the Mainstream Media

Voting Systems Without Bias

How Electability Frustrates Democracy

Can Less be Better?

Two-Candidate Elections

Collect Accurate Data and Analyze it Properly

Obstruction of Voter Expression

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