photo via Wikimedia Commons by Rich Niewiroski Jr. A few weeks ago, I posted "Replacing the jungle primary", where I outlined a couple of proposals that seemed like plausible replacements for California's current "top-two" primary system. I assigned both proposals jargon-y names, but I only want to highlight one of them: "Majority Approval Filter (MAF)". … Continue reading Replacing the jungle primary, December edition
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Replacing the jungle primary
California's jungle primary can be replaced with an approval voting-based primary. This is a description of how it would work.
Voting Methods in The Perl Journal
Back in 1996, I wrote an article for The Perl Journal, which they published in the Volume 1, Issue 3 in Autumn 1996. There are several alternatives available for the article: A scan I made of my 1996 article "Perl, Politics, and Pairwise Voting: Perl as the Activist's Friend" - I used CamScanner to make a… Continue reading Voting Methods in The Perl Journal
Debating Oprah
I managed to get into some wordy discussions with MikeMC over on Medium. Here's how it played out from my perspective: Oprah Winfrey gives an excellent speech at the Golden Globes (transcript). This causes rampant speculation about Oprah for President 2020. A backlash ensues. The backlash includes a lot of crappy discussion on a giant… Continue reading Debating Oprah
2017 update
I've neglected this blog for a really long time, but it's not like I haven't been writing publicly. A few links to my post 2010 writing: medium: robla - a lot of my recent writing, which has skewed political. Sign of the times, I guess... DailyKos: robla - this has been where I've posted most… Continue reading 2017 update
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