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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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147 Articles, 30 Quick Links, 1509 Comments, 12 Diaries, 3 Series, 8 Polls

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Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option

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What Might be the Best Voting System?

Making Choices

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Neither Positive nor Negative but Balanced Voting

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Who Will Win this Election?

Two-Candidate Elections

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How Would Balanced Voting Help?

Voting Systems in Action

Ranked Voting

The Perfect Voting System

Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler

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Voters Need to Understand How Votes are Counted

Spoiled Again

Good Strategic Voting

Yet Another Balanced Voting Method

The Level Election Playing Field

The Two-party Duopoly Sure, but What Else is Wrong?

Can Less be Better?

Approval Voting and Confusing Language

Who Will Win this Election? Part II

Top-down Bias in Podcasting

Runoff in a Star Election

Bottom-up Electoral Reform

Ranked Voting Articles

Balanced Condorcet Voting

What Could be Wrong with Ranked-Choice Voting?

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Range Voting

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Latvia Wisely Chose to Adopt BAV

Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler (Corrected version)

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Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting?

Balanced Approval Limitations

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