PerfectlyGoodInk
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My name is Felix Ling. I'm a registered Libertarian from Cal married to a registered Green from Stanford, and I've been a proponent of Proportional Representation since about 2008, [https://tinyurl.com/felixTweetPR mostly online]. I also support Ranked Choice Voting (largely convinced [https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2005/12/07/irv-compared-to-other-alternatives-to-plurality-rule/ by Matthew Shugart in 2005]), but I also view Condorcet, STAR, and Approval as big improvements over plurality and view the effects of these methods as far more similar than different.
I serve on the boards of [https://cfer.org Californians for Electoral Reform] as CFO and [https://prorepcoalition.org ProRep Coalition] as Treasurer. I also pretty much run [https://calrcv.org CalRCV's] Twitter account and occasionally help out the [https://www.lpoc.org Libertarian Party of Orange County]. All of these are unpaid volunteer positions. I'm also a monthly donor to [https://fixourhouse.org Fix Our House], CalRCV, and [https://fairvote.org FairVote]. I [https://twitter.com/perfctlyGoodInk tweet often] and [https://perfectlygoodink.com blog occasionally].▼
I have an MA in Applied Economics from San Jose State, a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, and I've worked as a software engineer, economics lecturer,
▲I serve on the boards of [https://cfer.org Californians for Electoral Reform] as CFO and [https://prorepcoalition.org ProRep Coalition] as Treasurer. I also pretty much run [https://calrcv.org CalRCV's] Twitter account and occasionally help out the [https://www.lpoc.org Libertarian Party of Orange County]. All of these are unpaid volunteer positions. I'm also a monthly donor to [https://fixourhouse.org Fix Our House], CalRCV, and FairVote. I [https://twitter.com/perfctlyGoodInk tweet often] and [https://perfectlygoodink.com blog occasionally].
▲I have an MA in Applied Economics from San Jose State, a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley, and I've worked as a software engineer, economics lecturer, content lead for a publisher in economics and statistics. Although my background is not in political science, I do love reading comparative politics research. I currently work in finance, playing an analyst-type role for a wealth management team, and I'm the father of two boys. [https://adriancoburn.com My wife] is a trained classical singer with a master's in music composition who currently loves reading musicology research.
And [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z47i3P9Qmoc here's a song I wrote (to the tune of "Lightning Crashes" by the 90s band Live) about RCV and ProRep].
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