Authors

• Jeff O'Neill
• Jonathan Lundell
• Brian Wichmann

Jeff O'Neill

Jeff is the founder of the OpenSTV project and its primary programmer. When not working on OpenSTV, Jeff is an intellectual property attorney at Wolf Greenfield in Boston. Jeff previously worked as a senior speech scientist writing speech recognition software, has a J.D. from Cornell Law School, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University. You can reach Jeff at jco8 at cornell.edu.

Selected publications:

• Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Choosing a runoff election threshold, Public Choice 131:351-364 (2007).
• Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Everything That Can Be Counted Does Not Necessarily Count: The Right to Vote and the Choice of a Voting System, 2006 Mich. St. Law. Rev. 327.
• Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Comments on the STV Rules Proposed by British Columbia, Voting matters 22:14-20 (2006).
• Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Fast Algorithms for Counting Ranked Ballots, Voting matters 21:1-5 (2006).
• Jeffrey C. O'Neill, Tie-Breaking with the Single Transferable Vote, Voting matters 18:14-17 (2004).

Jonathan Lundell

Jonathan is the CTO at Resilience Corp in Mountain View, California. He joined the OpenSTV project after helping to implement internal STV elections for the Green Party of the United States and the Green Party of California.

Jonathan studied philosophy at New College of Florida ('66), but drifted into computer technology to pay the rent. He blogs occasionally at Pragmatos.

STV-related publications:

• Jonathan Lundell (with I D Hill), Notes on the Droop quota , Voting matters 24:3-6 (2007). (pdf)
• Jonathan Lundell, Review - Irish Commission on Electronic Voting, Voting matters 23:13-17 (2007). (pdf)
• Jonathan Lundell, Random tie-breaking in STV, Voting matters 22:1-6 (2006). (pdf)

Brian Wichmann

Brian is a Software Engineer who has retired from the National Physical
Laboratory. While at NPL, he worked on the Pascal standard and was responsible for the design of the numerics in the Ada programming language. He is currently Editor of Voting matters.

Selected publications:

• B. A Wichmann (with I D Hill and D R Woodall) Single Transferable Vote by Meek's method. Algorithm 123, Computer Journal Vol 30, No3, pp277-281. 1987.
• B A Wichmann (with John Dawes) A New Class of Tilings with Two rototiles. Visual Mathematics. Vol 3. No 4. 2001.
• B A Wichmann (with I D Hill) Generating good pseudo-random numbers (see NPL web site).