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      <image:caption>Most voters say the current system is not giving them the choices they want. Two thirds (66%) agree that voters deserve a better way to elect their representatives, 71% feel they often have to choose the “lesser of two evils,” and 72% would prefer to see more than just the two major party candidates on the general election ballot.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Americans are sharply divided on the national parties and leaders, but feel more positively about government closer to home. Views of the Democratic and Republican parties and of Donald Trump and JD Vance are mixed and often unfavorable, while majorities say they have at least a somewhat favorable opinion of their own member of Congress, governor, state legislature, and especially their local governing body.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Nathan Atkinson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Research Affiliate at the ETH Zurich Center for Law and Economics. He researches the design of legal and political institutions, with a focus on the design of voting rules. Nathan holds a PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a JD from Stanford Law School.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Edward “Ned” B. Foley - Director, Election Law at Ohio State and Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law</image:title>
      <image:caption>Edward B. Foley is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts on election law. For the 2020 and 2024 elections, he served as an on-air NBC and MSNBC Election Law Analyst. He writes frequently for the general public on topics concerning the protection and improvement of democracy. He has been a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. His columns have also been published in The Atlantic and Politico, among other journals, and in 2024 he launched Common Ground Democracy (a Substack site) to regularly address the need to reform America’s election laws to combat polarization.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - John Forren - John Forren is Executive Director of the Menard Family Center for Democracy at Miami University of Ohio.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A native of Pataskala, Ohio, Dr. Forren holds a bachelor's degree with College Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. Before coming to Miami in 1997, he taught at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, East Carolina University and the College of William and Mary. He currently serves as an associate professor in Miami's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and is a faculty affiliate of the Department of Political Science and the Department of Justice &amp; Community Studies. He has served as the executive director of the University’s Menard Family Center for Democracy since its inception in 2019. Dr. Forren's research and teaching interests lie in the fields of American government and politics, constitutional law and history, public policy-making and civic engagement. In that vein, he has published on a range of issues including the development of federal and state statutory protections for civil liberties, the use of media in political campaigns, state-level trends in civic participation, the impact of college-based civic engagement programs, the evolution of legal policy in the lower courts and the federal government’s role in protecting Native American religious liberties. He has also co-authored two of the National Conference on Citizenship's Ohio Civic Health Index Reports and served from 2013-15 as the Academic Director of the U.S. State Department’s Study of the U.S. Institutes on Civic Engagement at Miami University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Scott Ganz - Assistant Professor of Management, School of Business, University of California at Riverside</image:title>
      <image:caption>Scott Ganz is a nonresident fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he uses novel quantitative methods to generate new insights about regulatory and business policy. Recent work includes designing statistical tests to improve decisions about reopening during the COVID-19 lockdowns, creating algorithms to predict the speed of approval and mass availability of COVID-19 vaccines, and reviewing empirical studies on real-world COVID-19 vaccine efficacy. He is also developing new computational methods for evaluating the distributional impact of storm-caused power failures, new machine learning algorithms for program evaluation in settings where linear regression is inappropriate, and new approaches for conducting elections and assessing voting systems with three or more candidates. His prior research focuses on the housing, utilities, energy, financial, and internet sectors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Wesley H. Holliday - Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wesley H. Holliday is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his BA and PhD from Stanford University. He has published papers on voting theory in journals including Social Choice and Welfare, Public Choice, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Theory and Decision, Constitutional Political Economy, and Economics Letters, as well conference proceedings including AAAI, TARK, and Contemporary Mathematics. He is an affiliate of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, an affiliate of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, a co-organizer of the workshop series on Social Choice for AI Ethics and Safety, and a Steering Committee member of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public. Together with Eric Pacuit, he developed the Stable Voting website and the Preferential Voting Tools library.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Eric Maskin - Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University, and 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eric Maskin is the Adams University Professor and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at Harvard. He has made contributions to game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, political economy, and other areas of economics. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He was a faculty member at MIT from 1977-1984, Harvard from 1985- 2000, and the Institute for Advanced Study from 2000-2011. He rejoined the Harvard faculty in 2012. In 2007, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (with L. Hurwicz and R. Myerson) for laying the foundations of mechanism design theory.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Charles T. Munger, Jr. - Chairman, Spirit of Democracy   Charles T. Munger, Jr. is an experimental physicist with a Ph.D. in atomic physics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated in 1987. His career has ranged from high-energy particle physics to the use of atomic systems to test fundamental symmetry principles. Working with two colleagues, he developed the technique for constructing the first atoms made entirely of anti-matter. His work for the last nine years has centered on developing an experiment to detect the electric dipole moment of the electron, as a probe of CP-violation that might occur outside the Standard Model of particle physics.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Between 2003 and 2007, Charles served on the Curriculum Development and Materials Commission for the California State Board of Education.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Eric Pacuit - Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eric Pacuit is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland and an affiliate of Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute of Maryland (AIM). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center and previously held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University—in the Departments of Philosophy and Computer Science—and at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. Eric's research primarily focuses on logic, voting theory, and game theory. His work on voting has been published in the journals Social Choice and Welfare, Public Choice, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in conference proceedings such as AAAI and TARK. Together with Wes Holliday, he developed pref_voting (https://pref-voting.readthedocs.io/), an open-source Python package for analyzing voting methods. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and a Vidi grant from the Dutch science foundation (NWO).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Florenz Plassmann - Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science and Economics, Xavier University Florenz Plassmann is professor of economics and political science at Xavier University, where he serves as Dean of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences. Dr. Plassmann earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Virginia Tech. He has served as Dean of the College of Arts &amp; Sciences at Ohio University, and he was a faculty member in the departments of economics and political science at Binghamton University, where he also served as chair of the Economics Department and as Associate Dean of Harpur College of Arts &amp; Sciences.   Dr. Plassmann has been a program director of the economics program at the National Science Foundation as well as a visiting resident scholar at the International Monetary Fund.  He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and a past associate editor of the journal Economics Bulletin. Dr. Plassmann has served on over 20 doctoral committees, and he is the author of more than 30 publications in the fields of voting theory, public choice, law and economics, urban economics, environmental economics, the history of economic thought, computational economics, and econometrics.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.betterchoicesohio.org/bios/katherine-m-robiadek</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-04-06</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Bios - Katherine M. Robiadek - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Xavier University</image:title>
      <image:caption>Katherine M. Robiadek is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Core Faculty in the Honors Program in Philosophy, Politics, and the Public at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She held previous positions in the Core Curriculum at Boston University and as Director of Hood College’s Martha E. Church Center for Civic and Community Engagement. Katherine’s research primarily focuses on democracy in the history of political thought, in institutional governance, and in student leadership development, along with a current project on academic freedom. Her work on democracy is published in journals including Democracy and Security, Political Theory, and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach &amp; Engagement. She was recently invited to serve her first term on the American Political Science Association’s Civic Education Committee.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Robbie Robinette</image:title>
      <image:caption>Robbie Robinette is an entrepreneur and democracy advocate based in Austin, Texas. In 2001, after founding a series of successful technology companies, Robbie applied his background in physics, machine learning, and modeling dynamic systems to trading markets. As founder and President of RGM Advisors, Robbie and his partners grew a firm founded in his living room into one of the largest proprietary trading firms in the world. Over 17 years, RGM used machine learning to analyze market data and trade trillions of dollars of equities, currencies, and futures in American, European, and Asian markets. After selling RGM in 2017, Robbie began to apply his background in modeling and complex systems to the mathematics driving our political systems and polarization. Candidates behave the way they do because it works. But why does it work? And how can we improve that? Most of all, Robbie wants to reform our elections so that when candidates act in their self-interest, they act in the public interest. Answering these questions has driven Robbie to engage with experts in the field and to publish papers on public choice theory. Where the preexisting academic work focused on the mathematics of the election system itself, Robbie has developed models to explain the profound implications of election systems on the societies they govern. Robbie has worked with San Diego, Georgia, and Alaska reform organizations to implement election systems that are consistent with Consensus Choice Voting. He has also given lectures on public choice and factionalism at The University of Texas and Virginia Tech. Robbie also sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Mark Strama - Director, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Engagement, University of Texas at Austin</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mark Strama is Director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life at the University of Texas at Austin.  He is also a Professor of Practice in UT’s Moody College of Communication and in the Plan II program.  Mark was recently appointed by the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives to serve on the Texas Ethics Commission. Previously, Mark spent ten years at Google Fiber working to upgrade the speed and quality of internet service in the United States.  Prior to that he served five terms in the Texas House of Representatives, where he focused on renewable energy, public education, and electoral reform. Mark received Honorable Mentions on Texas Monthly's Ten Best Legislators list in three of his five sessions in the House; Texas Monthly said "Strama cares as much about others' success as his own."  Prior to running for public office, Mark founded the first company to enable Americans to fill out a voter registration form on the Internet - 700,000 people used this technology to register to vote in the 2000 election cycle.  During the 1996 election cycle, Mark was Director of Programs at Rock the Vote, a non-partisan organization that works with MTV and the music industry to engage young people in the political process.  He previously worked for former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Bios - Nicolaus Tideman - Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nicolaus Tideman is a Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech.  He received his bachelor's degree from Reed College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969.  From 1969 to 1973 he was Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University.  In 1970-71 he served as Senior Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisors, with special responsibility for urban issues.  He has also served as a consultant at the Bureau of the Budget (predecessor to the Office of Management and Budget) and at the Office of Tax Analysis in the Department of the Treasury.  He has been at Virginia Tech since 1973, as a postdoctoral fellow, Associate Professor, and Professor since 1985.  He has published over 100 professional articles, primarily in the areas of efficient public decision-making, economic justice, public finance, and urban economics.  His book Collective Decisions and Voting: The Potential for Public Choice was published by Ashgate Publishing Company in 2006 and republished by Routledge in 2017.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Carah Ong Whaley, PhD is the Executive Director of Better Choices for Democracy. Previously, Carah served as the Director of Election Protection at Issue One, where she worked with IO’s Faces of Democracy, National Council on Election Integrity, and on the 2024 Trusted Elections Communications Hub bringing together over 85 national state and local nonpartisan organizations to advance election integrity and increase confidence in elections. Carah also worked at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. She serves as co-chair of the American Political Science Association’s Civic Engagement section and is a member of APSA’s Civic Education Committee.  Carah’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Teen Vogue, and NPR, among others. She is co-author and editor of The Red Ripple: The 2022 Midterm Elections and What They Mean For 2024 (Rowman &amp; Littlefield 2022); Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in Era of Divisive Politics (Palgrave MacMillan 2024); Leaning Into Politics: Higher Education’s Role in the Building the Democracy We Need (Information Age Press 2024); American Government: Roots and Reform (chapters on Political Parties, Campaigns, Elections and Voting, and The Media; Pearson 2013-2024); “Jan. 6 Hearings Show a Democracy in Crisis. Civic Education Can Help;” “We the People, We the Process: Engaging Young People in Election Administration;” “Counting on Higher Education: Teaching and Assessing Knowledge and Participation in the 2020 Census;” among other publications.  Carah was previously Associate Director of the James Madison Center for Civic Engagement at James Madison University. Under campus-wide voter education and engagement initiatives facilitated by Carah, over 75% of the student body turned out to vote in the 2020 election. Carah worked for non-governmental organizations on nuclear weapons and security issues from 1999-2012. She was appointed by the Governor of Virginia to the Complete Count Commission for the 2020 Census. Carah holds a PhD in American Government and a Master’s in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and degrees in Spanish and Global Peace and Security from the University of California at Santa Barbara.</image:caption>
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