Aaron Hamlin

ED & Founder @BallotLab
Upcoming book: Invisible Democracy

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Now deep in the editing phase for Invisible Democracy. https://t.co/17x5O7EerD

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Ordinal permutations make STV simulations difficult.

[Jack Santucci @jacksantucci]

https://t.co/VzhHGWmQV3

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

@NickTroiano @leedrutman Is this reply engaging with anything of substance? I mean, people can change their minds or have more nuanced opinions when seeing more evidence. Also, PR solves a lot, and there are good arguments to not use single-winner methods to fill multi-seat elected bodies.

[City of Philadelphia @PhiladelphiaGov]

The Market Street Old City Improvement Project has been completed between 2nd and 6th!

🌳Street trees and planters
🚲Raised bike lanes
🚌Bus bump-outs
🚦Traffic signals, and more.

We hope residents, businesses, and visitors in Old City enjoy this new streetscape!

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

@PhiladelphiaGov @PhillyOTIS @StreetsPhila @OldCityDistrict @NatlParkService @INDEPENDENCENHP @PhilaParking @SEPTA_SOCIAL @PHLPlanDevelop This is what bike lanes should look like. Well done! Someone has been reading up on their NACTO best practices!

[Verified Voting @VerifiedVoting]

Internet/mobile voting may sound convenient, but as our Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, C.Jay Coles, points out: "Saying something is secure does not actually make it so."

Learn more 👇

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

A sad day for Fargo voters who have to go back to the worst voting method in existance. This is after state lawmakers feared approval voting might trickle up to them and hold them accountable. https://t.co/C28RHpFM9D

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Nice read on primary systems and the null or near-null effect on partisanship relative to closed systems. I'd be curious about interaction effects with center-biased methods like approval voting.

Naturally, Drutman makes a callout to PR, which I tend to sympathize on.

[Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 @leedrutman]

I regret to inform you all that "open the primaries to independents" is an inadequate solution to restoring sanity to Washington. Most states already let independents vote in primaries. Open primary states do not elect bipartisan compromisers. (link below)

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Playing with image generation in ChatGPT. Thought I'd create a better food pyramid that was vegan. Imagine if this is what the USDA put out. Also, crazy to think that just a short while ago, the same image generator couldn't really do text.

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

For anyone looking to get books outside of Amazon, I've found these work well and help local bookstores:
@bookshop_org_UK @librofm

Physical & eBooks:
https://t.co/Wd7DVOU7tX
Audio Books:
https://t.co/qraOr1MiGg

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

@leedrutman There'd be a lot to figure out with the implementation, but absolutely PR is the correct direction for multi-member bodies.

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

@mcuban @Dougf43 @NateSilver538 As someone who looks at this quite a lot, I'm not sure how IRV/RCV accomplishes those goals. I know the method is attacked for poor reasons, but there are good reasons to prefer simpler and better voting method reforms as well. https://t.co/eSH8veMnkr

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

@TheFGA If you're for better elections, then you should also be for the banning of plurality voting/FPTP.

[Ballot Lab @BallotLab]

A voting method can sound fair and still perform badly.

Our latest post looks at how to evaluate voting methods by asking what they actually measure, where they fail, and what ballot data alone can’t show.

https://t.co/T2tNdQDbUZ

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

The company that processes student loan payments, @MOHELA, takes up to four months to take your loans out of forbearance. It's this kind of bullshit that takes what should be a "mere" 10 years of public service for forgiveness turn into multiple years beyond.

[Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 @leedrutman]

We need a solution that does not rely on the Court.
The answer is proportional representation. Proportional representation enables equal representation to minority voters as a structural feature, not as a litigated favor any future court can take away.

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Looking forward to the future of the newest org I'm working on, @BallotLab, to focus on election research. Give them a follow and check out the intro article. You can explore the site while you're over there!

And welcome to our latest advisor, @DCInbox

[Ballot Lab @BallotLab]

Hello world! Learn more about what we're up to and planning at Ballot Lab. Check out our first article and explore our website!
https://t.co/2lmet6Gg2k

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

How is it that that @WordPress defaults to having your e-mail as the author for a blog post? That's the craziest decision. How could that not be fixed by now? I'm not a coder and just burning through credits with Claude to figure this out.

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

I'm so excited to tell you I'm publishing a book!! My co-author and I read over 100 self-improvement books and carefully reviewed >20 types of therapy. Every time they provided a method or technique or said to do a specific thing, we extracted it. To our great surprise.... 🧵

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

Another iteration:

[Aaron Hamlin @aaronfhamlin]

The editing stage is getting close. https://t.co/17x5O7EerD