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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 |
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. |
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Revision as of 18:36, 2 March 2023
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, mostly online. I also support Ranked Choice Voting (largely convinced 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 Californians for Electoral Reform as CFO and ProRep Coalition as Treasurer. I also pretty much run CalRCV's Twitter account and occasionally help out the Libertarian Party of Orange County. All of these are unpaid volunteer positions. I'm also a monthly donor to Fix Our House, CalRCV, and FairVote. I tweet often and 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. My wife is a trained classical singer with a master's in music composition who currently loves reading musicology research.
And here's a song I wrote (to the tune of "Lightning Crashes" by the 90s band Live) about RCV and ProRep.