User:VoteFair

User:VoteFair is Richard Fobes, author of The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox: A Complete Course In The Art Of Creating Solutions To Problems Of Any Kind, which has been published in 10 languages. It is a how-to book on creative problem solving.

Richard Fobes created a voting method called VoteFair ranking, which he describes and promotes in his book titled Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections. The core part of VoteFair ranking is called "VoteFair popularity ranking," and Fobes later learned that it is mathematically equivalent to the Kemeny-Young method. VoteFair ranking also includes VoteFair representation ranking, VoteFair party ranking, VoteFair partial-proportional ranking, ballot-marking conventions, and other voting conventions. Open-source VoteFair ranking software is available on GitHub in the CPSolver account, and the website at www.VoteFair.org provides a free service of calculating VoteFair ranking results.

Richard Fobes designed and created the software negotiation tool at NegotiationTool.com, and that software is also open-source available on GitHub (in the CPSolver account).

He wrote major portions of the Declaration of Election-Method Reform Advocates.

He created the Dashrep programming language, the open-source code for which is on GitHub.

Richard Fobes earned a degree in Physics from the University of California at Davis.