Ismar Volić is a professor and chair of mathematics at Wellesley College and the director of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy. He is the author of "Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation."
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Ranked choice voting in NYC showed us what elections could look like
The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute...
How the Temporary Protected Status program saved my life
Immigration policy is not an abstract discussion happening far away from us, writes Bosnian native Ismar Volić, who came to the U.S. as a teenager. It is the difference between...
American democracy needs a redesign
The engine of American democracy is rusty, sputtering, and no longer able to take us where we want to go, writes Ismar Volić, a mathematician who directs the Institute for...
The electoral college is bad for democracy. Math can fix that
The Electoral College is outdated, a convergence of all the bad math fueling our political engine, writes Ismar Volic. But mathematics can also suggest better democratic processes, unencumbered by partisanship...
The Latest Argument For Ranked-Choice Voting? Last Week’s Primary
Jake Auchincloss won the Fourth District Democratic primary with 22% of the vote. This is why we need to change our system of voting, writes Ismar Volić.
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Immigrants Are Ambassadors For American Values — That Can Be Good For The World
U.S. policies must recognize the role immigrants play in advocating for greater tolerance and diversity in their countries of origin, writes Ismar Volić.
'America Would Obviously Not Do This' — The Election, And An Immigrant's Disbelief
This was the America that welcomed me as a teenager, never cared where I was from, and never made me feel like I was an outsider, writes Ismar Volić.