Tom Mast
Electoral Reforms are Achievable
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Reference: LA Times of 9-23-22 The LA Times reported in an upbeat manner on the efforts of the...
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Practical Solutions to America's Problems
Tom Mast
Oct 31, 20224 min
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
Tom Mast
Sep 22, 20223 min
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
Tom Mast – founder, Solve American Gridlock Ranked Choice Voting – Defined Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff...
Tom Mast
Sep 15, 20222 min
Multimember Districts
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock If I were you, I wouldn’t bother to read this article if you love the following results that...
Tom Mast
Aug 23, 20223 min
See Saw Congress (Unsteady, careen, lurch)
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock PROBLEM Over the past roughly 10-25 years, our U.S. Congress has evolved into a bipolar entity,...
Tom Mast
Aug 2, 20222 min
“Takes Two to Make a Fight”
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock One day long ago when we were little children, my sister and I had a disagreement in the...
Tom Mast
Jul 19, 20221 min
Dysfunctional Congress: What to Do?
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let’s lay the groundwork for more than two parties to flourish in America – as they do in...
Tom Mast
Jul 5, 20222 min
Polarization and Root Causes
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock I recently ordered and received a book that purported to have some suggestions regarding how...
Tom Mast
Jun 25, 20221 min
Confidence in Congress
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #gerrymandering I don’t suppose the data above are very surprising to most of you,...
Tom Mast
Jun 16, 20221 min
We Must Have More Than Two Parties
Tom Mast Ms. Danielle Allen, a candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2020, had an Op-Ed in the WSJ on May 7 in which she said “We...
Tom Mast
May 30, 20222 min
Multi-Member Districts
The United States has not always had single-member districts with their Gerrymandering and Safe Seat issues; prior to 1967, the House...
Tom Mast
May 23, 20222 min
IMAGINE!
Let’s just imagine that we have – right now – a US House of Representatives populated by members from, say, four effective parties, an...
Tom Mast
May 6, 20221 min
Must We Accept Permanent Gridlock in our Congress?
Congress is not doing its job at all well, and a root cause is its division into two diametrically opposed and essentially equal-sized...
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